Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns

The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church....

Bellona Times and 6 more 8 hours 18 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Arnold Bennett - Pretty Lady

‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in...

Simon Evers 8 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Card

The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin — His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the...

Andy Minter 7 hours 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Leonora

Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapidly growing up and away and she regrets that her life has become dull,...

Simon Evers 7 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Grand Babylon Hotel

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurous hotel in London, as a whim — and then finds out there are strange things going on — a German prince is supposed to arrive...

Anna Simon 6 hours 44 minutes

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Historical Fiction

449

Arnold Bennett - Great Man: a Frolic

Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a best-selling novel. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Simon Evers 6 hours 21 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He...

Simon Evers 5 hours 58 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Arnold Bennett - Buried Alive

The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man...

Simon Evers 5 hours 53 minutes

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Short Stories

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Arnold Bennett - Tales of the Five Towns

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of...

Martin Clifton 5 hours 39 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Lilian

Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, who suspects that Felix is more interested in Lilian than perhaps he should be...

Simon Evers 4 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Literary Taste: How to Form It

Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13...

Timothy Ferguson 3 hours

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Psychology

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Arnold Bennett - Mental Efficiency

In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life, the advantages (and disadvantages) of marriage and other pocket...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 50 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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