Arnold Bennett
Birthplace	Hanley, Staffordshire, England
Occupation	Novelist

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Bennett, Arnold

Born May 27, 1867, in Hanley, Staffordshire; died Mar. 27, 1931, in London. English writer.

After graduating from the university, Bennett worked as a clerk and a jurist. His first story was published in 1895. In The Old Wives’ Tale (1908), a story of two sisters appears as a tragedy of inevitable aging. In the social novels of everyday life Anna of the Five Towns (1902), Clay hanger (1910), and its sequel Hilda Lessways (1911), Bennett realistically portrays a provincial region that is turning into an industrial center. The novel Lord Raingo (1926) is a satire on the nouveaux riches who made their fortune during World War I (1914–18). The author has also written plays and critical essays, including The Truth About an Author (1903) and “Literary Taste” (1909).

WORKS

The Journals .... London, 1954.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns. London, 1928.
Letters, vol. 1. London, 1966.
In Russian translation:
“Leonora.” Russkaia mysl’, 1913, NOS. 3–5.
Kar’era pisatelia. Moscow-Berlin, 1925.
Londonskie rasskazy. Petrograd, 1923.

REFERENCES

Istoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 3. Moscow, 1958.
Davis, O. H. The Master. . . . London, [1966].
Barker, D. Writer by Trade. . . . London [1966].

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Five Towns

References in classic literature

You will therefore experience a restlessness which will at first seem quite aimless, but will finally resolve itself in a conscious desire to change your profession, or go round the world, or conceal your identity and live in Putney, like Arnold Bennett's hero.

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Baloo/Boris could be straight out of Arnold Bennett's novel The Card, a character identified "with the great cause of cheering us all up".

It's a jungle out there - thank goodness!

At the same time, Jonathan's own poetry collection, Cassandra Complex, was shortlisted for the annual Arnold Bennett Prize.

Award for author; IN BRIEF

A Adam Bennett B Charles Bennett C Thomas Bennett D Arnold Bennett 9.

General Knowledge Quiz

1931: Arnold Bennett, novelist and writer (Clayhanger) died of typhoid after a visit to Paris.

on this day

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My wife opted for an omelette Arnold Bennett to kick off.

HOTEL of the week

A colecao que discutimos traz uma variedade de textos curtos como: um discurso de Woolf lido para a Sociedade Nacional de Auxilio as Mulheres, uma introducao a um livro organizado pela Cooperativa de Trabalhadoras, criticas acerca de livros escritos sobre a escrita de autoria feminina, um artigo que nos apresenta a atriz Ellen Terry (que atuou em diversas pecas shakespearianas na Inglaterra), e ate mesmo uma troca de cartas entre Woolf e Desmond MacCarthy, critico que defende um livro de Arnold Bennett, intitulado Nossas mulheres: capitulos sobre a discordia entre os sexos, onde Bennet propunha que as mulheres eram intelectualmente inferiores aos homens.

A "UNIAO" DE VIRGINIA WOOLF: DE ANJOS A MULHERES LIVRES

(11) Both plays, The Earth by James Bernard Fagan and What the Public Wants by Arnold Bennett, portray this new figure in British society as brutal, brilliant, recently knighted yet, strangely for one who manipulates public opinion, unable to read people's thoughts and feelings in his private relationships.

The emergence of the press Baron as 'literary villain' in English letters 1909-1939

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Managed mayhem on the M62

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