Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
By Arnold Bennett
15 Apr, 2020
An ingenious satire, "Buried Alive" (1908) is Bennett at his most charming and wittiest. It is the story of a renowned but exceedingly shy painter, Priam Farll, who assumes the identity of his dead valet, Henry Leek, as a means of avoiding press atte
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An ingenious satire, "Buried Alive" (1908) is Bennett at his most charming and wittiest. It is the story of a renowned but exceedingly shy painter, Priam Farll, who assumes the identity of his dead valet, Henry Leek, as a means of avoiding press attention. The novel was enormously successful as a play, retitled The Great Adventure, and later as the film "Holy Matrimony." Less