Publisher's Synopsis

An ingenious satire, "Buried Alive" (1908) is Bennett at his most charming and wittiest. It is the story 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."

Book information

ISBN: 9781985197725
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 234
Weight: 318g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 12mm