Arnold Bennett

For years I had been preoccupied with thoughts of love-and by love I mean a noble and sensuous passion, absorbing the energies of the soul, fulfilling destiny, and reducing all that has gone before it to the level of a mere prelude. And that afternoon in autumn, the eve of my twenty-first birthday, I was more deeply than ever immersed in amorous dreams.

An ingenious satire, Buried Alive (1908) is Bennett at his most charming and wittiest. It is the story a renowned but exceedingly shy painter, Priam Farll, who assumes the identity of his dead valet, Henry Leek, as a means of avoiding press attention. The novel was enormously successful as a play, retitled The Great Adventure, and later as the film Holy Matrimony.

First published in 1914, The Author's Craft gathers four essays that reveal the essence of what Bennett learned as a practicing writer; namely, the importance of detailed observation, the art of writing a novel, the art of playwriting, and how a writer can best please his public.

"Over There" is a 1915 account of life on the 'Western Front' during the First World War by English writer Arnold Bennett. The Western Front was the central area of battle during the war. It was defined by a line of trenches created by both sides that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France and which changed little during the war. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the First World War and especially the horrors...

First published in 1898, "Journalism For Women" is a guide to becoming a good journalist originally designed for women and written by Arnold Bennett. Within it, Bennet outlines various lines of study and training recommended for journalists new and old, offering tips on such subjects as first steps, style, types of newspaper, working with colleagues, and much more. Although he is perhaps best remembered for his popular novels, Bennett also produced...

Entertaining and invaluable for anyone passionate about Swinnerton and his work, this collection of reminiscences by such highly regarded authors as Bennett, Wells, and Overton will surprise and delight readers with anecdotes about how the authors met Swinnerton, their relationship with him, and their feelings about his work. Humorous and insightful, these brief sketches offer a rare insider's look at an important author who wrote over fifty books,...

"Twelve of the most revered, time-honored, proven classics on attaining abundance. Here, in one volume, are the essential wealth writings that have influenced millions of people over the past 150 years"--