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The Old Wives' Tale
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: David Haig
- Length: 24 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The Old Wives' Tale is broken up into four parts, and the lives of two sisters are laid bare: one timid and unassuming, the other romantic and adventurous. From working as children in their family's drapery shop to their later years, Constance and Sophia's journey through life could not be more different. While one travels the world and defies male expectations, the other becomes a dutiful wife and mother.
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Loved it
- By Anonymous on 13-01-2026
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The Old Wives' Tale
- Narrated by: David Haig
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 24 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2009
- Language: English
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Ghost- A Modern Fantasy
- By: Arnold Bennett
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In Ghost - A Modern Fantasy, we follow Carl Foster, a newly qualified doctor, as he arrives in London with dreams of success. His life takes a dramatic turn when he encounters the renowned tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a horrific backstage injury. As Carl tends to Alresca, he becomes captivated by the lead soprano, Rosetta Rosa, igniting a passionate love affair. Under Alrescas mentorship, Carl travels to Bruges, where he uncovers the tenors unsettling obsessions and is shadowed by a mysterious stranger. The atmosphere darkens further when Alrescas sudden death leaves Carl entangled in a ...
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This classic personal time-management book, originally published in 1908, has inspired generations of men and women to live deliberate lives. Not just another collection of timesaving tips, this book is more of a challenge to leave behind mundane everyday concerns, focus on pursuing one's true desires, and live the fullest possible life. Reflection, concentration, and study techniques make it easier to accomplish more truly rewarding undertakings than anyone ever dreamed possible.
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A common sense life line
- By Tee tee on 28-11-2022
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2012
- Language: English
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The Card
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in 1911, The Card is the story of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, who rises from washerwoman's son to the Mayor of Bursley (Burslem in the Potteries town of Stoke-on-Trent) via a mixture of gentle deceit and personal hype. He is literally a trickster of confidence. His rise to fame is begun at an exclusive ball to which he has got himself invited, where he has the audacity to claim a dance with the glamourous but imposing Countess of Chell.
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The Card
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2015
- Language: English
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Anna of the Five Towns
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in stifled, 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 by prosperous and accomplished Henry Mynors. As her father's fortune grows, so does Anna understanding. She realises her legacy and responsibility for the possible ruination of her father's tenants, Titus Price and his son, Willie, who also loves her.
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Arnold Bennet’s books are fantastic
- By Tee tee on 04-09-2022
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Anna of the Five Towns
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2011
- Language: English
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China Towns: Based on the Five Towns Novels
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Kate O'Flynn, Neil Dudgeon, Tim McInnerny, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this radical reinterpretation of six brilliant Arnold Bennett novels, it’s the 19th-century Midlands and over 10-and-a-half sweeping hours individuals rise and fall, they age, flourish, and try to keep up as the world around them changes into something unrecognisable, transformed by new technology. Fortunes are made and lost, hearts broken, empires built and deals made. These tales of aspiration and passion, damage and danger are told with Bennett's forensic, (journalist’s) eye for human psychology and a surprising degree of witty comedy.
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China Towns: Based on the Five Towns Novels
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Kate O'Flynn, Neil Dudgeon, Tim McInnerny, Don Gilet, Rebekah Staton, full cast
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2019
- Language: English
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The Old Wives Tale
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Spanning nearly half a century, The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope, tracing as it does the effects of time on two sisters and their surroundings. The novel is a domestic story told with tenderness, and is concerned not with heroic statesmen or soldiers, but with small details of daily life in a way which demonstrates Bennett’s great debt to French realist writers. The action is concentrated mainly within the provincial town of Bursley, a startling contrast to Paris where Sophia and Gerald elope.
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The Old Wives Tale
- Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2011
- Language: English
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Riceyman Steps
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Square. Henry and Violet engage the services of Elsie as ‘charwoman’.
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Riceyman Steps
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2011
- Language: English
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Paul Darn
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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, author Arnold Bennett had observed a worrying trend of exhausted wage earners whose waking hours revolved around their jobs and who had little time to spend on the business of actually living. Self-improvement was Bennett's prescription for a speedy escape from the woes of the rat race.
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- Narrated by: Paul Darn
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2017
- Language: English
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Man from the North
- By: Arnold Bennett
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In Man from the North, Richard Larch, a spirited young man hailing from the north of England, ventures to London with dreams of striking it rich. By day, he diligently serves as a clerk in an office, but his true passion lies in writing. Alongside his literary aspirations, he is on a quest to find the perfect partner. This captivating tale chronicles Richard’s journey as he navigates the challenges of ambition and romance, drawing inspiration from Bennetts own life experiences in his debut novel. (Summary by Simon Evers)
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The Card
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Arnold Bennett's... splendidly comic portrayal of Edward Henry Machin, known as Denry to his mother to save time, is set in Bursley, one of the author's Five Towns of Staffordshire. Starting in 1897, when Denry first saw the smoke of the potbanks, the tale chronicles his rise to fame and wealth including such events as improving his exam results to guarantee success, adjusting the guest list of the municipal ball to include himself and then daring to ask the Countess of Chell to dance!
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The Card
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-06-2011
- Language: English
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How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Mark F. Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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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 evolution of your immortal soul. This timeless classic is one of the first self-help books ever written and was a best-seller in both England and America. It remains as useful today as when it was written, and offers fresh and practical advice on how to make the most of the daily miracle of life.
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How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
- Narrated by: Mark F. Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2021
- Language: English
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- The Complete Original Edition
- By: Arnold Bennett, Joel Fotinos
- Narrated by: Bruce Kramer
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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...
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- The Complete Original Edition
- Narrated by: Bruce Kramer
- Series: Simple Success Guides
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2020
- Language: English
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The Grand Babylon Hotel
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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When American millionaire Theodore Racksole and his 23-year-old daughter Nella stumble upon The Grand Babylon Hotel, an exclusive London establishment, they are so struck by the fascinating building that Theodore decides to purchase it. But soon a criminal conspiracy arises that endangers that purchase, and Theodore and Nella must turn detective to protect it.
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The Grand Babylon Hotel
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2022
- Language: English
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Anna Of The Five Towns
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- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, David Schofield, Full Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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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...
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Anna Of The Five Towns
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- Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, David Schofield, Full Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2011
- Language: English
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Helen with the High Hand
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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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 lifestyle and likes to spend money while the old man has lived a thrifty life and intends to continue in the same way. However, they develop a friendship which progresses rapidly, and Helen moves in to James' house to look after him.
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Charming and humorous
- By Anonymous on 27-02-2026
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Helen with the High Hand
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2017
- Language: English
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Great Classic Crime Stories
- Tales of Murder, Robbery, Extortion, Blackmail, Forgery, and Worse
- By: Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers.
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Great Classic Crime Stories
- Tales of Murder, Robbery, Extortion, Blackmail, Forgery, and Worse
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-09-2014
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales of Terror: Volume 7
- By: Rudyard Kipling, Arnold Bennett, Daniel Defoe, and others
- Narrated by: Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Bill Wallis, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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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, Arnold Bennett, Daniel Defoe, Edith Nesbit and M.R. James. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, while you sit back, and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own. Our stories include "My Own True Ghost Story" by Rudyard Kipling, "The Horla" by Guy De Maupassant, and more.
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Gothic Tales of Terror: Volume 7
- Narrated by: Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Bill Wallis, Geoff McGivern, Ghizela Rowe
- Series: Gothic Tales of Terror, Book 7
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-04-2012
- Language: English
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Old Adam
- By: Arnold Bennett
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Old Adam follows Edward Henry Machin, a self-made man from the English Midlands, who finds himself restless despite his success. When a chance windfall inspires him to seek adventure, he plunges into the theatrical world of London, navigating ambition, romance, and self-discovery. A witty and insightful novel exploring ambition and identity.
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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Arnold Bennett was an English novelist and author. Among his most popular novels are The Grand Babylon Hotel and Anna of the Five Towns. However, none of his novels approached the popularity of his little book, "How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day." It caused a sensation when first printed and continues to be printed and widely read today. In it, he offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing ) within the confines of 24 hours a day.
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-12-2008
- Language: English
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