A Man from the North

Famous British writer Arnold Bennett's novel 'A Man from the North' was first published in the year 1911. "There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. The metropolis, and everything that appertains to it, that comes down from it, that goes up into it, has for him an imperious fascination. Long before schooldays are over he learns to take a doleful pleasure in watching the exit of the London train from the railway station." -an excerpt