Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett - These Twain

Hilda is saved from destitution by Edwin Clayhanger who marries her. The two, with Hilda's son by her disastrous 'marriage' to George Cannon, are living in Bursley. Edwin does not enjoy an entirely happy marriage with...

Simon Evers 15 hours 18 minutes The Clayhanger Family

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General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Hilda Lessways

This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book)....

Simon Evers 11 hours 2 minutes The Clayhanger Family

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Philosophy

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Arnold Bennett - Human Machine

Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: «I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 48 minutes

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Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands (Summary by Andy Minter).

Andy Minter 10 hours 29 minutes

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Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Satire

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Arnold Bennett - Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, and Bennett, as always, stands the test of time, though in the case of...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 57 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Feast of St. Friend

In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book , Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's writing includes some thought-provoking ideas liberally spiced with his...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 30 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Clayhanger

This first of a trilogy of novels is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business, and falls in love. The books are...

meyerli and 1 more 21 hours 3 minutes The Clayhanger Family

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General Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Regent

'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel. Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a...

Andy Minter 9 hours 6 minutes

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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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General Fiction

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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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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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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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New

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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