Enoch Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Staffordshire (which is now Stoke-on-Trent), the son of a solicitor. He was educated in Newcastle-under-Lyme. After school, he worked for his father, and in his spare time he was a journalist. At age twenty-one, he moved to London to work as a solicitor's clerk. In 1889 he won a writing competition in Tit-Bits magazine and decided to become a full-time journalist. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman, for which he also began writing serial fiction. His first novel, A Man from the North, was published in 1898, the same year he became the editor of Woman. In 1900 he left the magazine and moved to Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, to become a full-time writer. In 1903 he moved to join the artist community in Paris, where he wrote several novels and plays. In 1908 he published The Old Wives' Tale, which was a best-seller. He visited to America in 1911 on a much-publicized trip.
During World War I he was Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. He refused a knighthood in 1918. In 1922 he separated from his French wife and fell in love with the actress Dorothy Cheston, with whom he stayed for the rest of his life. He died of typhoid at his home in London in 1931.
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The Grand Babylon Hotel: a fantasia on modern themes
43 editions - first published in 1902 Read -
The Regent: a Five Towns story of adventure in London.
28 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
Hilda Lessways
25 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
Leonora: a novel
25 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
Clayhanger
23 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
Tales of the Five Towns
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The human machine
22 editions - first published in 1908 Read -
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
21 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
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Literary taste
20 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
How to live on 24 hours a day
19 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
Feast of St. Friend: a Christmas book
19 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
The Pretty Lady: a novel.
18 editions - first published in 1918 Read -
Books and Persons: being comments on a past epoch, 1908-1911.
16 editions - first published in 1917 Read -
These twain
16 editions - first published in 1915 Read -
Hugo: a fantasia on modern themes
16 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
Imperial palace
15 editions - first published in 1930 Borrow -
The plain man and his wife
15 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
Journals
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Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells: a record of a personal and a literary friendship.
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Milestones: a play in three acts
13 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
Over There: war scenes on the western front.
13 editions - first published in 1915 Read -
Things that have interested me
12 editions - first published in 1921 Read -
The truth about an author
12 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
The journal of Arnold Bennett
11 editions - first published in 1932 Borrow -
The glimpse: an adventure of the soul.
11 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
What the public wants: a play in four acts.
10 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
Judith
10 editions - first published in 1919 Read -
Cupid and commonsense: a play in four acts
9 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
Body and soul: a play in four acts.
8 editions - first published in 1921 Read -
Lord Raingo
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The Ghost A Modern Fantasy
7 editions - first published in 1911 Read -
How to make the best of life
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Frank Swinnerton
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The bright island
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Self and self-management: essays about existing.
7 editions - first published in 1918 Read -
The city of pleasure: a fantasia on modern themes
7 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
The savour of life: essays in gusto.
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The Old Wives\' Tale Volume I
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The gates of wrath: a melodrama
6 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The love match: a play in five scenes.
6 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
Paris nights, and other impressions of places and people
6 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
Mental efficiency, and other hints to men and women
6 editions - first published in 1911 Read -
Accident
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Your United States, Impressions of a First Visit
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Lilian
5 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
Don Juan de Marana: a play in four acts.
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Liberty!: a statement of the British case
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Arnold Bennett's letters to his nephew
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Paris nights: and other impressions of places and people
4 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
Literary taste: how to form it: with detailed instructions for collecting a complete library of English literature
4 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
The Vanguard: a fantasia
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Books and Persons (Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911)
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Dream of destiny: an unfinished novel ; and, Venus rising from the sea
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Those United States
3 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
The Old Wives' Tale Volume II
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The Clayhanger family: I. Clayhanger. II. Hilda Lessways. III. These twain
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Journal 1929
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The Roll-Call
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The Price of Love (A Tale): A Tale
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Mental efficiency: and other hints to men and women
3 editions - first published in 1887 Borrow -
Over There (War Scenes on the Western Front)
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The Arnold Bennett omnibus book: containing Riceyman Steps, Elsie and the child, Lord Raingo [and] Accident.
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Collected Works of Arnold Bennett
3 editions - first published in 1975 -
The Matador of the Five Towns: and other stories
3 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
Self and Self Management Essays About Existing
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
Shelter, Housing and Homes: A Social Right
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The Great Adventure (A Play of Fancy)
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Venus rising from the sea
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The journal of Arnold Bennett 1896-1910
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The Love Match a Play in Five Scenes
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How to live
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Judith, a play in three acts [microform]: founded on the Apocryphal book of Judith
2 editions - first published in 1919 Read -
Arnold Bennett: the Evening standard years : books and persons 1926-1931
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Old Wives Tales
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Mediterranean scenes: Rome--Greece--Constantinople
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Flora
2 editions - first published in 1975 -
Hugo. A Fantasia on Modern Themes
2 editions - first published in 2000 -
Stroke of luck and Dream of destiny: an unfinished novel
2 editions - first published in 1932 -
The author's craft and other critical writings of Arnold Bennett
1 edition - first published in 1968 -
No Royalty A/C Tales of Five Towns
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Letters to his Nephew
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Letters
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
The Title (Collected Works of Arnold Bennett, Volume 83)
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Essays of to-day and yesterday
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The truth about an author, and literary taste: and how to form It.
1 edition - first published in 1919 -
The gates of wrath, a melodrama
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The Ides of March: a play in one act
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A good woman: a farce in one act
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Looking North for Health: What We Can Learn from Canada's Health Care System (Jossey-Bass Health Series)
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Cupid and Commonsense; A Play in Four Acts. (The Collected works of Arnold Bennett)
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Murder!: With Envelope (Travelman Crime)
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Dream of destiny, an unfinished novel: and Venus rising from the sea
1 edition - first published in 1932 -
The journal of Arnold Bennett, 1896-1928
1 edition - first published in 1933 -
Grand Babylon Hotel, a Fantasia on Modern Themes
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Riceyman Steps, a novel
1 edition - first published in 1931 -
The Dog; the Elixir of Youth; the Baby's Bath
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
Milestone [microform]: a play in three acts
1 edition - first published in 1912 -
The journal
1 edition - first published in 1933 -
The loot of cities, being the adventures of a millionaire in search of joy: A fantasia.
1 edition - first published in 1972
Arnold Bennett
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