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Riceyman Steps

by Arnold Bennett

A London bookseller’s “grand passion” for hoarding money threatens his own happiness as well as those closest to him.

Themes: Fiction · Drama

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A hatless man with a slight limp stops on the half-landing of Riceyman Steps, turns with a casual air that barely hides a definite design. He can look two ways at once: toward the clangorous King's Cross Road, and toward the confectioner's shop.

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