Riceyman Steps

a novel

by Arnold Bennett

1923 334 pages eng ★ 3.7 (3 ratings)

<p><i>Riceyman Steps</i>, first published in 1923, is set in “dingy and sordid” Clerkenwell, in central London, where “existence was a dangerous and difficult adventure in almost frantic quest of food, drink and shelter.” It’s there that Henry Earlforward runs a gloomy, dusty store full of secondhan…