Arnold Bennett

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A Bracelet at Bruges

A Bracelet at Bruges

'A Bracelet at Bruges' is a mystery story about a lost diamond bracelet. Initially there does not appear to be any mystery about the loss. Kitty Sartorius, the famous actress, visiting Bruges with her friend Eve Fincastle, had just passed the valuable...

Anna of the Five Towns

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. Having escaped her father by...

Anna of the Five Towns

Anna of the Five Towns

Set in stifled industrial Staffordshire in the late nineteenth century against a strong evangelical background Anna of the Five Towns tells of the courting of hard businessman Ephraim Tellright's daughter by prosperous and accomplished Henry Mynors....

Arnold Bennett: How To Live on 24 Hours a Day

Arnold Bennett: How To Live on 24 Hours a Day

Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away? These questions Bennett asks each of us and for those who want to...

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 the valet. The artist does not...

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 set in Bennett's usual setting of "the...

Cómo vivir con 24 horas al día

Cómo vivir con 24 horas al día

Arnold Bennett, bautizado como Enoch Arnold Bennett (Hanley, actual Stoke-on-Trent, 27 de mayo de 1867 - Londres, 27 de marzo de 1931)Creía firmemente que la literatura debía ser accesible para la gente común. Sus libros iban dirigidos a un público...

Como vivir con venticuatro horas al día

Como vivir con venticuatro horas al día

"Como vivir con veinticuatro horas al día" es un libro escrito por Arnold Bennett, un escritor y novelista británico del siglo XX. Publicado por primera vez en 1910, este libro práctico y perspicaz ofrece consejos y reflexiones sobre cómo aprovechar...

Helen with the High Hand

Helen with the High Hand

Bennett described his story as an ‘Idyllic Diversion’. Helen Rathbone meets her elderly uncle, James Ollerenshaw, in Bursley Park, after an estrangement of several years. Both are very strong willed, independent characters. Helen has an extravagant...

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). Bennett explores Hilda's ambition to...

When local musical prodigy, Gilbert Swann, is selected to play the violoncello with the visiting London orchestra during the musical festival in the five towns, his mother is convinced that he will be the cornerstone of the entire event.When local...

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

With the advent of the modern corporate workplace in the twenty-first century, more and more people are toiling away behind desks, wearily clocking the standard forty-hour week. By 1910, writer Arnold Bennett had observed a worrying trend of exhausted...

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett is an iconic study of time management and productivity. It proposes that an individual can enhance their productivity and quality of life through the effective utilization of the limited resource of 24...

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away? These questions Bennett asks each of us and for those who want to...

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.' -- Arnold Bennett knew a "rat race" when he saw one. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. And...

Literary Taste: How to Form It

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 contain detailed lists of the 337...

Mental Efficiency

Mental Efficiency

In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking book, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life, the advantages (and disadvantages) of marriage and other pocket philosophies.A man honestly tries to make a good impression....

Mental Efficiency

Mental Efficiency

"Mental Efficiency" by Arnold Bennett is a timeless self-help classic focused on improving one's mental faculties and productivity. Originally published in 1911, the book offers practical advice and insights on enhancing mental clarity, concentration,...

Mental Efficiency

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 philosophies.The book stands the test of...

Mental Efficiency And Other Hints

Mental Efficiency And Other Hints

Mental Efficiency and Other Hints by Arnold Bennett is an insightful exploration of the psychological processes involved in achieving personal efficiency. By examining topics such as habit formation, emotional control, and goal setting, this work...

It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman...

Self and Self-management

Self and Self-management

Self and Self-Management: Essays about Existing is one of Bennett's most successful works, comprising a series of essays that address the struggles concerning work that mainly young women have faced during his time, at an individual level.The essays...

Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

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 some of the essays in this eclectic...

Tales of the Five Towns

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 Staffordshire, England, known as the...

The Author's Craft

The Author's Craft

Why do we write? What does it mean to be a writer?This book contains no useful tips on grammar, style, or plot. Instead, it focuses on the observation and perspective that is needed to be a good writer - on the fact that writing is an expression of...