Arnold Bennett

First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale tells the story of the Baines sisters: shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia, over the course of nearly half a century....

This classic personal time-management book, originally published in 1908, has inspired generations of men and women to live deliberate lives....

Set in industrial Staffordshire in the late 19th century, against a strong evangelical background, Anna of the Five Towns tells of the courting of hard businessman Ephraim Tellright's daughter....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this audiobook, Arnold Bennett offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing ) within the confines of 24 hours a day....

It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust....

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness....

The Card is the story of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, who rises from washerwoman's son to the Mayor of Bursley via a mixture of gentle deceit and personal hype....

When William Froyle, ostler at the Queen's Arms at Moorthorne, learns that his betrothed has betrayed him, he determines to hang himself in the inn's coach house....

Helen Rathbone meets her elderly uncle, James Ollerenshaw, in Bursley Park, after an estrangement of several years....

Spanning nearly half a century, The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope....

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and more....

Learn to use your most precious commodity—time—to truly live. Arnold Bennett’s classic book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, has been changing the way people use and consider their time since it was first published in 1910. In the intervening century surprisingly little has changed—we...

A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers....

A collection of strange and often grisly tales by some of the world's greatest writers, ranging from mildly unsettling to hair-raising....

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 event....

Our classic authors including Arnold Bennett, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Ivan Turgenev and many others use their pens and stories to demonstrate the many ways this feeling can take a hold of lives and its consequences.

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...

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 really live and learn, offers very valuable...

En "Cómo Vivir con 24 horas al día", Arnold Bennett ofrece consejos prácticos sobre cómo aprovechar al máximo el tiempo disponible en el día...