This volume gathers three exemplary works by Arnold Bennett, each illuminating a different facet of his art. Buried Alive is a deft comic satire of identity, celebrity, and social pretension; The Old Wives' Tale is Bennett's broadest realist achievement, tracing the divergent lives of two sisters against the changing textures of provincial and European life; and The Card offers a brisk, ironic portrait of ambition and charm in the Potteries. Together they display Bennett's lucid prose, nar...

From Washington Irving's early American hauntings to Virginia Woolf's modernist unease, this sweeping collection gathers thirty tales of ghosts, curses, and things that should not be. Mary Shelley's gothic imagination, Charles Dickens's haunted houses, M. R. James's antiquarian terrors, and Henry James's psychological dread sit alongside Oscar Wilde's wit and H. G. Wells's speculative chills, tracing the occult and supernatural short story across a century of English-language fiction. Whet...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

In "Imperial Palace," Arnold Bennett crafts a vivid depiction of life in a fictional city, infused with a blend of realism and impressionistic detail. Set in the early 20th century, the narrative explores the intricacies of urban existence, weaving together themes of ambition, social dynamics, and the human spirit. Bennett's distinctive prose showcases his mastery of character development, as he deftly navigates the lives of individuals striving for personal and collective identity within ...

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Arnold Bennett's 'The Self-Management Series' is a collection of practical and insightful essays that delve into the principles of self-improvement and personal development. Written in a clear and accessible style, Bennett offers timeless advice on topics such as time management, self-discipline, and goal setting. The literary context of this book lies in the self-help genre, where Bennett's straightforward approach and emphasis on practical solutions set him apart from his contemporaries....

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931) was an English novelist. ... He won a literary competition in Tit-Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full time. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for 75 pounds. He then wrote another. This became The Grand ...

The Old Wives' Tale, considered to be one of Bennett's finest works, begins in the 1860s, in the industrial "Five Towns" of the English Midlands, where he set many of his partially autobiographical stories.The novel follows the prosperous Baines family, who live above the successful clothing shop they own in the town of Bursley (based on Burslem, in Staffordshire). Even when the two Baines daughters were still young, their characters are already formed. Sophia has "youth, beauty, a...

Enter a world where ghosts walk, ancient forces awaken, and the impossible becomes terrifyingly real. 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces in One Book brings together a collection of classic stories exploring the darkest corners of the supernatural imagination. Inside, readers encounter ghostly apparitions, haunted houses, mysterious rituals, occult practices, strange creatures, supernatural encounters, forbidden knowledge, unexplained phenomena, and ancient forces that defy ordinary expl...

Arnold Bennett's The Five Towns Series transforms the industrial Staffordshire Potteries into one of the most fully realized provincial worlds in English fiction. Across its interlinked novels and tales, Bennett portrays Bursley, Hanbridge, Knype, Longshaw, and Turnhill as places of commerce, inheritance, ambition, repression, and intimate moral drama. His style combines Edwardian realism with a Balzacian attention to money, work, domestic interiors, and social gradation, placing local liv...

The Complete Works of Arnold Bennett gathers the fiction, essays, and critical prose of one of Edwardian England's most industrious and exacting observers. From the Five Towns novels to works of urban ambition and psychological realism, Bennett's writing combines documentary precision with a humane interest in ordinary lives shaped by commerce, class, habit, and desire. His style—lucid, disciplined, and richly observant—belongs to the realist tradition while also registering the pressures ...