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Mr. Prohack

by Arnold Bennett

Suddenly unemployed and penniless, Mr. Prohack must learn to live on a budget and find new meaning in his life. Mr. Prohack is a successful Treasury official who suddenly finds himself unemployed and penniless after his department is abolished. He is forced to move out of his luxurious apartment and into a small rented flat. He must also learn to live on a budget, which is something he has never had to do before. As Prohack struggles to adjust to his new life, he begins to question the meaning of his existence. He realizes that he has been living a shallow and meaningless life, and he begins to search for something more. Mr. Prohack is a funny, insightful, and moving novel about the search for meaning in life. It is a book that will stay with you long after you have finished reading it.

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Bennett is best known for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in a fictionalised version of the Potteries, which he called The Five Towns. He strongly believed that literature should b...

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