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Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 different newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. The sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
Born into a modest but upwardly-mobile family in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, Bennett was intended by his father, a solicitor, to follow him into the legal profession. Bennett worked for his father, before moving to another law firm in London as a clerk, aged 21. He became assistant editor and then editor of a women's magazine, before becoming a full-time author in 1900. Always a devotee of French culture in general and French literature in particular, he moved to Paris in 1902, where the relaxed milieu helped him overcome his intense shyness, particularly with women. He spent ten years in France, marrying a Frenchwoman in 1907. In 1912 he moved back to England. He and his wife separated in 1921 and he spent the last years of his life with a new partner, an English actress. He died in 1931 of typhoid fever, having unwisely drunk tap water in France.
Bennett is best known for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in a fictionalised version of the Potteries, which he called The Five Towns. He strongly believed that literature should be accessible to ordinary people, and he deplored literary cliques and élites. His books appealed to a wide public and sold in large numbers. For this reason writers and supporters of the modernist school, notably Virginia Woolf, belittled him, and his work became neglected after his death. Bennett was also a playwright; he did less well in the theatre than with novels, but achieved two considerable successes with Milestones (1912) and The Great Adventure (1913). He also had considerable success with journalistic 'self-help' books such as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1908) and Literary Taste: How to Form It (1909).
Studies by Margaret Drabble (1974), John Carey (1992) and others have led to a re-evaluation of Bennett's work. His finest novels, including Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923), are now widely recognised as major works.
Riceyman Steps
Anna of the Five Towns
The Grand Babylon Hotel
The Card
The Old Wives' Tale
The Old Adam
The Regent
The Wisdom of William H. Danforth, James Allen & Arnold Bennett- Including: I Dare You!, as a Man Thinketh & How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women
The Plain Man and His Wife
A Small Boy in the Sixties
Tales of the Five Towns
The Great Adventure
The Lion's Share
Your United States Impressions of a First Visit: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.
The Ghost a Modern Fantasy: The Central Man of All the World a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State Colleg
Mr. Prohack
The Price Of Love
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
Sacred and Profane Love
Hilda Lessways
A Great Man a Frolic: His Life, Art, and Characters - With an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England
Journalism for Women
The Human Machine
Judith, a Play in Three Acts Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith: Crabbe
The Author's Craft
Over There War Scenes on the Western Front
The Title
Buried Alive
Helen with the High Hand (2nd Ed.): Crabbe
The Regent
The Pretty Lady
The Roll-Call
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
Leonora
Literary Taste: How to Form It
Hugo a Fantasia on Modern Themes: The Tragedies
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
The Loot of Cities, and Further Adventures in Crime and Mystery
Helen with the High Hand
The Science of Being Well, Mental Efficiency & the Magic Story: The Collected New Thought Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles and Arnold Bennett
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
The Card - A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
Buried Alive - A Tale of These Days: A Text-Book for Students and Others
Mental Efficiency & Other Hints to Men & Women
Mental Efficiency: And Other Hints to Men and Women
A Great Man
Teresa of Watling Street
Judith, a Play in Three Acts
Your United States - Impressions of a First Visit
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
The City Of Pleasure
The Ghost by Arnold Bennett, Fiction, Literary
The Feast of St. Friend
Books and Persons
Your United States
The Ghost
The Old Wives' Tale - Volume II
The Old Wives' Tale - Volume I
Over There
Hugo. a Fantasia on Modern Themes
These Twain
The Loot of Cities
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
Das Gespenst
The Author's Craft (Esprios Classics)
Books and Persons (Esprios Classics)
The Card (Esprios Classics)
The Feast of St. Friend (Esprios Classics)
The Ghost (Esprios Classics)
The Grand Babylon Hotel (Esprios Classics)
The Great Adventure (Esprios Classics)
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (Esprios Classics)
Helen with the High Hand (Esprios Classics)
Hilda Lessways (Esprios Classics)
Hugo (Esprios Classics)
The Human Machine (Esprios Classics)
Journalism for Women (Esprios Classics)
Judith, a Play in Three Acts (Esprios Classics)
Leonora (Esprios Classics)
The Lion's Share (Esprios Classics)
Literary Taste (Esprios Classics)
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
How to Make the Best of Life - With an Excerpt from Arnold Bennett by F. J. Harvey Darton
The Night Visitor and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
Literary Taste - How to Form It
Over There - War Scenes on the Western Front
Paris Nights - And other Impressions of Places and People
Self and Self-Management; Essays About Existing
The Author's Craft
The Grand Babylon Hôtel
The Oldwive´s Tale
The Authors Craft
Judith
The Lions Share
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