Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
                                            
                            By Arnold Bennett
                            
                                16 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