Ramsbottom Grant Arms Hotel in Market Place was the home of William and Daniel Grant, 19th century industrialists closely associated with the rise of the town and reputed to be the inspiration for the Cheeryble brothers in "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens. The Grants' employees were paid in tokens that had to be redeemed at a public house owned by the company. The landlord converted the tokens into cash, but only after deducting threepence per person, which had to be spent on beer, a variation on the truck system. A network of roads and railways routed through Ramsbottom allowed for a
Brothers (Yu novel) of the Cultural Revolution has garnered much criticism. Brothers (Yu novel) Brothers (兄弟, Xiōngdì) is a novel by the Chinese author Yu Hua which was originally published in August 2005 by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. The book was translated into English by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow and Carlos Rojas, Spanish in 2009, and into Brazilian Portuguese and Hungarian (by János SZÉKY) in 2010. "Brothers" is considered to be one of Yu Hua's masterpieces.The novel intertwines tragedy and comedy, and Yu Hua himself admits that the novel is personally his favourite literary work. Divided into two parts (Part 1 and