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....

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

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

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

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...

You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the...

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.

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....

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...

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

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion, 'Anna of the Five Towns'. Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit a...

Devi vivere su queste ventiquattro ore di tempo quotidiano. Con esso devi far girare la salute, il piacere, il denaro, la soddisfazione, il rispetto e l'evoluzione della tua anima immortale. Il suo giusto uso, il suo uso più efficace, è una questione della massima urgenza...

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....

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? Find out more....

In the industrial heart of Victorian England, Anna is dominated by her father and the strict Methodist community. Inheriting a fortune does not free her from subjugation: every direction has an obstacle and Anna must choose between the ambitious Henry Mynors and the sensitive Willie Price.

Mental Efficiency & Other Hints to Men & Women is a sharp, practical, and surprisingly modern work by English novelist and social commentator Arnold Bennett, who turns his attention to a question that still resonates today.

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....