Riceyman Steps

by Arnold Bennett · 1923

A miserly secondhand bookseller in a shabby London district marries, as his obsessive thrift corrodes love and life.

Books mentioned in Riceyman Steps (7)

• Poems by Thomas Gray: “Here's one of the earliest collected editions of Gray's Poems.”
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray: “Elegy in a Country Churchyard sort of thing?”
• Tales by Jean de La Fontaine: “an eighteenth-century Dutch illustrated edition, octavo, of La Fontaine's Tales.”
• The Scapegoat by Hall Caine: “making a profit of one penny on the sale of a soiled copy of 'The Scapegoat'”
• Just a Girl by Charles Garvice: “cheap editions of novels in paper jackets, under titles such as 'Just a Girl,'”
• Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey: “under titles such as 'Just a Girl,' 'Not Like Other Girls,'”
• The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare: “wrapping up the green Globe Shakspere in a creased bit of brown paper”