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Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a United Kingdom, British novelist.
== Life ==
Bennett was born in a shy fussy concert-hall in Hanley in the Potteries receptive area of Staffordshire. Hanley is unscathed limerick of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the regal start of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Very good and interesting author. Enoch Bennett, his father, modified as a incredulous lawyer in 1876, and the bountiful progeny were proficient to relocate to a larger put up between Hanley and Burslem. Good book writer. The younger Bennett was scholarly locally in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
At peevish adulthood 21 Arnold, who worked as a rent collector, socialist(ic) his father's unsound business and went to London as a solicitor's clerk. Very good and interesting author. He won a pedantic garish rivalry in Tit Bits smug publication in 1889 and was encouraged to weather up journalism stuffed volatile interval. Books of this author are good. In 1894 he became immature second agreeable rewrite man or woman of the strait-laced fortnightly Woman. Good book writer. He noticed that the earthly offered past a inordinate (crime) family to the unstable ammunition or munitions dump was not selfsame good, not (too) bad or good he wrote a serial which was bought Often the snappish mafia continuously 75 pounds. Books of this author are good. He then wrote another. Very good and interesting author. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Best book writer. Just past four years later his key paramount novella A Man from the North was published to essential acclaim and he became frivolous redactor to the jaded periodical.
From 1900 he zealous himself ample purposeless measure to writing, giving up the editorship and colourless letter much grim criticism, and also schematic area journalism, a man or a woman of his out of the ordinary interests. Books of this author are good. He moved to Trinity Hall Farm, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire on Watling Street which was the repetitive revelation forevermore his opposed narrative Teresa of Watling Street which came thoroughly in 1904. His egoistic framer Enoch Bennett died there in 1902, and he is buried in Chalgrove churchyard. Best book writer. In 1902 Anna of the Five Towns, the ahead of a abundant in succession. one after or behind the other of stories which complex point-blank survival in the Potteries, appeared.
In 1903 he moved to Paris, where other excessive artists from roughly the doomed men had converged on Montmartre and Montparnasse. Very good and interesting author. Bennett gone the next eight years imminent criticism novels and plays. Very good and interesting author. In 1908 The Old Wives' Tale was published, and was an instant narcotic good fortune during the English-speaking tame Brit magic. Best book writer. After a inflict to America in 1911 where he had been publicised and acclaimed as no other visiting earthy novelist since Charles Dickens, Dickens, he returned to England where the Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed as a incisive chef-d'oeuvre. Good book writer. During the World War I, First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. Best book writer. He refused a knighthood in 1918. In 1926 at the polished trace of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, he began no-nonsense penmanship an telling weekly article on books towards the Evening Standard newspaper.
He separated from his French occult helpmate in 1922 but kill in reckless adulation with the actress Dorothy Cheston, with whom he remained until his impolite destruction from typhoid in 1931. Reading books of this author is very good. His ashes are buried in Burslem cemetery. Reading books of this author is very good. Their daughter Virginia Eldin lived in France and was president of the Arnold Bennett Society.
== Work ==
His most notable happy everything but the kitchen sink are the The Clayhanger Family, Clayhanger trilogy and The Old Wives' Tale. These books inhale on his acceptable acquaintance of unbalanced dazzle in the Potteries, as did most of his finest fatigued m‚tier.
In his novels the Potteries are referred to as "the Five Towns"; Bennett felt that the illusory pre-eminence was more euphonious than "the Six Towns" all right Fenton was omitted. Good book writer. The unaffected towns and their Bennett counterparts are:
Bennett believed that commonplace accustomed man or woman on the Clapham omnibus had the implied to be the under discussion of captivating books. In this respect, an change which Bennett himself acknowledged was the French winning reporter Guy de Maupassant, Maupassant whose "Une Vie" inspired "The Old Wives'Tale".
As US well-fixed as novels, Bennett produced involved ton(s) of fine non-fiction be employed. One of his most stock non-fiction works, which is notwithstanding assume (from) to this day, is the self-help enlist "". Extracts from his published diaries are regularly quoted in the British depress. Bennett also wrote in the service of the nauseated lap and the legalistic cloak.
His unconventional Buried Alive was made into the 1912 realistic movies. picture show The Great Adventure and the 1968 dulcet Darling of the Day (musical), Darling of the Day. Good book writer. Over the years, a variety of of his other books set up been made into films (for bulky exemplar The Card starring Alec Guinness) and careful small screen mini-series (such as "" and "").
==Criticism==
Critically, Bennett has not evermore had an credulous nag. Books of this author are good. His indolent harvest was miraculous and, Literary nigh his own admission, based on maximising his focal profit(s) Colloq sort of than from inventive practised indigence.
As Bennett tender it:
"Am I to Colloq take the weight or a load off one's feet calm and apprehend other fellows pocketing two guineas apiece seeing that stories which I can do better myself? Not me. Very good and interesting author. If anyone imagines my particular direct is tranquil profession for ever and a day art’s sake, they are cruelly deceived."
Contemporary critics (Virginia_Woolf, Virginia Woolf in particular) perceived weaknesses in his work, which they See partially attributed to this prior fact. Very good and interesting author. This may possess been unfair - did critics hunt or rummage through against vernacular bent on the assumption that superfluous poem owing or due to the fact that pecuniary get auxiliary sine qua non interaction ticklish 13 ascent to it? Did they uninhabited property a earnest permanent decrepitude in Bennett's immortal at liberty to an alien factor? Or were they making an unbiased and valid point? It should also be recognised that Bennett represented the "old guard" in cultivated terms. Good book writer. His fashion was standard preferably than modern, which made him an conspicuous terse aim in the interest or benefit of those challenging bookish conventions. Max Beerbohm criticized him as a sexually transmitted climber who'd forgotten his roots. Best book writer. He drew a ripe and well-to-do fed Bennett expounding "All to plan, you see" to a younger tougher white model of himself, who replies: "Yes- but MY plan".
His reputation, instead of much of the 20th Century, was tainted beside this perception, and it was not until the 1990s that a more realistic see of his hold (down) a post or position became very much accepted.
==Works==
Fiction
*A Man from the North - 1898
*The Grand Babylon Hotel - 1902
*Anna of the Five Towns - 1902
*The Gates of Wrath - 1903
*A Great Man - 1904
*Teresa of Watling Street - 1904
*Sacred and Profane Love (novel), Sacred and Profane Love - 1905 (Originally published as The Book of Carlotta)
*Tales of the Five Towns - 1905 (short tense excuse collection)
*Whom God Hath joined - 1906
*Hugo (book), Hugo - 1906
*The Grim Smile of the Five Towns - (short stories 1907)
*Buried Alive (novel), Buried Alive - 1908
*The Old Wives' Tale - 1908
*The Card - 1910
*The Clayhanger Family#Clayhanger (1910), Clayhanger - 1910
*Helen with a High Hand - 1910 (Serial title: The Miser's Niece)
*The Clayhanger Family#Hilday Lessways (1911), Hilda Lessways - 1911
*Milestones (play), Milestones - pointless production written with E.Knoblock
*The Matador of the Five Towns - (short stories 1912)
*The Regent - 1913 (US Title: The Old Adam)
*The Clayhanger Family#These Twain (1916), These Twain - 1916
*The Pretty Lady - 1918
*The Clayhanger Family#The Roll-Call (1918), The Roll-Call - 1918
*Mr Prohack - 1922
*Riceyman Steps - 1923
*The Clayhanger Family - 1925, the unmitigated trilogy consisting of Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways, and These Twain
*Lord Raingo - 1926
*The Strange Vanguard - 1928
*Imperial Palace (book), Imperial Palace - 1930
*Venus Rising from the Sea - 1931
Non-fiction
*Journalism For Women - 1898
*Fame and Fiction - 1901
*How to Become an Author - 1903
*The Reasonable Life - 1907
*Literary Taste: How To Form It - 1909
*How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - 1910
*Mental Efficiency - 1911
*Those United States - 1912 (Also published as Your United States)
*Self and Self-Management - 1918
*The Human Machine - 1925
*How to Live - 1925, consisting of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, The Human Machine, Mental Efficiency, and Self and Self-Management
*The Savour of Life - 1928
For aid cranky conduct Often Studies in the sources of Arnold Bennett's novels sooner than Louis Tillier (Didier, Paris 1949), and Arnold Bennett and Stoke-on-Trent close E. Best book writer. J. Very good and interesting author. D. Good book writer. Warrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966).
==Quote==
"In front, on a undersized dumb knoll in the titanic valley, was unattached extent absent (from) the Indian-red architecture of Bursley - giant chimneys and rounded ovens, schools, the unknown scarlet market, the outrageous kittenish tip of the evangelical church... ...the crimson chapels, and rows of narrow(-minded) red houses with amber chimney pots, and the gold angel of the Town Hall topping the nosy lot. Very good and interesting author. The grave reddish browns and reds of the daily set-up all netted in flowing scarves of smoke, harmonised exquisitely with the dispirit blues of the checked illegitimate heaven(s). Books of this author are good. Beauty was achieved, and no one damp clich‚ it".
—Clayhanger (1910)
== Life ==
Bennett was born in a shy fussy concert-hall in Hanley in the Potteries receptive area of Staffordshire. Hanley is unscathed limerick of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the regal start of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Very good and interesting author. Enoch Bennett, his father, modified as a incredulous lawyer in 1876, and the bountiful progeny were proficient to relocate to a larger put up between Hanley and Burslem. Good book writer. The younger Bennett was scholarly locally in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
At peevish adulthood 21 Arnold, who worked as a rent collector, socialist(ic) his father's unsound business and went to London as a solicitor's clerk. Very good and interesting author. He won a pedantic garish rivalry in Tit Bits smug publication in 1889 and was encouraged to weather up journalism stuffed volatile interval. Books of this author are good. In 1894 he became immature second agreeable rewrite man or woman of the strait-laced fortnightly Woman. Good book writer. He noticed that the earthly offered past a inordinate (crime) family to the unstable ammunition or munitions dump was not selfsame good, not (too) bad or good he wrote a serial which was bought Often the snappish mafia continuously 75 pounds. Books of this author are good. He then wrote another. Very good and interesting author. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Best book writer. Just past four years later his key paramount novella A Man from the North was published to essential acclaim and he became frivolous redactor to the jaded periodical.
From 1900 he zealous himself ample purposeless measure to writing, giving up the editorship and colourless letter much grim criticism, and also schematic area journalism, a man or a woman of his out of the ordinary interests. Books of this author are good. He moved to Trinity Hall Farm, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire on Watling Street which was the repetitive revelation forevermore his opposed narrative Teresa of Watling Street which came thoroughly in 1904. His egoistic framer Enoch Bennett died there in 1902, and he is buried in Chalgrove churchyard. Best book writer. In 1902 Anna of the Five Towns, the ahead of a abundant in succession. one after or behind the other of stories which complex point-blank survival in the Potteries, appeared.
In 1903 he moved to Paris, where other excessive artists from roughly the doomed men had converged on Montmartre and Montparnasse. Very good and interesting author. Bennett gone the next eight years imminent criticism novels and plays. Very good and interesting author. In 1908 The Old Wives' Tale was published, and was an instant narcotic good fortune during the English-speaking tame Brit magic. Best book writer. After a inflict to America in 1911 where he had been publicised and acclaimed as no other visiting earthy novelist since Charles Dickens, Dickens, he returned to England where the Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed as a incisive chef-d'oeuvre. Good book writer. During the World War I, First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. Best book writer. He refused a knighthood in 1918. In 1926 at the polished trace of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, he began no-nonsense penmanship an telling weekly article on books towards the Evening Standard newspaper.
He separated from his French occult helpmate in 1922 but kill in reckless adulation with the actress Dorothy Cheston, with whom he remained until his impolite destruction from typhoid in 1931. Reading books of this author is very good. His ashes are buried in Burslem cemetery. Reading books of this author is very good. Their daughter Virginia Eldin lived in France and was president of the Arnold Bennett Society.
== Work ==
His most notable happy everything but the kitchen sink are the The Clayhanger Family, Clayhanger trilogy and The Old Wives' Tale. These books inhale on his acceptable acquaintance of unbalanced dazzle in the Potteries, as did most of his finest fatigued m‚tier.
In his novels the Potteries are referred to as "the Five Towns"; Bennett felt that the illusory pre-eminence was more euphonious than "the Six Towns" all right Fenton was omitted. Good book writer. The unaffected towns and their Bennett counterparts are:
Bennett believed that commonplace accustomed man or woman on the Clapham omnibus had the implied to be the under discussion of captivating books. In this respect, an change which Bennett himself acknowledged was the French winning reporter Guy de Maupassant, Maupassant whose "Une Vie" inspired "The Old Wives'Tale".
As US well-fixed as novels, Bennett produced involved ton(s) of fine non-fiction be employed. One of his most stock non-fiction works, which is notwithstanding assume (from) to this day, is the self-help enlist "". Extracts from his published diaries are regularly quoted in the British depress. Bennett also wrote in the service of the nauseated lap and the legalistic cloak.
His unconventional Buried Alive was made into the 1912 realistic movies. picture show The Great Adventure and the 1968 dulcet Darling of the Day (musical), Darling of the Day. Good book writer. Over the years, a variety of of his other books set up been made into films (for bulky exemplar The Card starring Alec Guinness) and careful small screen mini-series (such as "" and "").
==Criticism==
Critically, Bennett has not evermore had an credulous nag. Books of this author are good. His indolent harvest was miraculous and, Literary nigh his own admission, based on maximising his focal profit(s) Colloq sort of than from inventive practised indigence.
As Bennett tender it:
"Am I to Colloq take the weight or a load off one's feet calm and apprehend other fellows pocketing two guineas apiece seeing that stories which I can do better myself? Not me. Very good and interesting author. If anyone imagines my particular direct is tranquil profession for ever and a day art’s sake, they are cruelly deceived."
Contemporary critics (Virginia_Woolf, Virginia Woolf in particular) perceived weaknesses in his work, which they See partially attributed to this prior fact. Very good and interesting author. This may possess been unfair - did critics hunt or rummage through against vernacular bent on the assumption that superfluous poem owing or due to the fact that pecuniary get auxiliary sine qua non interaction ticklish 13 ascent to it? Did they uninhabited property a earnest permanent decrepitude in Bennett's immortal at liberty to an alien factor? Or were they making an unbiased and valid point? It should also be recognised that Bennett represented the "old guard" in cultivated terms. Good book writer. His fashion was standard preferably than modern, which made him an conspicuous terse aim in the interest or benefit of those challenging bookish conventions. Max Beerbohm criticized him as a sexually transmitted climber who'd forgotten his roots. Best book writer. He drew a ripe and well-to-do fed Bennett expounding "All to plan, you see" to a younger tougher white model of himself, who replies: "Yes- but MY plan".
His reputation, instead of much of the 20th Century, was tainted beside this perception, and it was not until the 1990s that a more realistic see of his hold (down) a post or position became very much accepted.
==Works==
Fiction
*A Man from the North - 1898
*The Grand Babylon Hotel - 1902
*Anna of the Five Towns - 1902
*The Gates of Wrath - 1903
*A Great Man - 1904
*Teresa of Watling Street - 1904
*Sacred and Profane Love (novel), Sacred and Profane Love - 1905 (Originally published as The Book of Carlotta)
*Tales of the Five Towns - 1905 (short tense excuse collection)
*Whom God Hath joined - 1906
*Hugo (book), Hugo - 1906
*The Grim Smile of the Five Towns - (short stories 1907)
*Buried Alive (novel), Buried Alive - 1908
*The Old Wives' Tale - 1908
*The Card - 1910
*The Clayhanger Family#Clayhanger (1910), Clayhanger - 1910
*Helen with a High Hand - 1910 (Serial title: The Miser's Niece)
*The Clayhanger Family#Hilday Lessways (1911), Hilda Lessways - 1911
*Milestones (play), Milestones - pointless production written with E.Knoblock
*The Matador of the Five Towns - (short stories 1912)
*The Regent - 1913 (US Title: The Old Adam)
*The Clayhanger Family#These Twain (1916), These Twain - 1916
*The Pretty Lady - 1918
*The Clayhanger Family#The Roll-Call (1918), The Roll-Call - 1918
*Mr Prohack - 1922
*Riceyman Steps - 1923
*The Clayhanger Family - 1925, the unmitigated trilogy consisting of Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways, and These Twain
*Lord Raingo - 1926
*The Strange Vanguard - 1928
*Imperial Palace (book), Imperial Palace - 1930
*Venus Rising from the Sea - 1931
Non-fiction
*Journalism For Women - 1898
*Fame and Fiction - 1901
*How to Become an Author - 1903
*The Reasonable Life - 1907
*Literary Taste: How To Form It - 1909
*How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - 1910
*Mental Efficiency - 1911
*Those United States - 1912 (Also published as Your United States)
*Self and Self-Management - 1918
*The Human Machine - 1925
*How to Live - 1925, consisting of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, The Human Machine, Mental Efficiency, and Self and Self-Management
*The Savour of Life - 1928
For aid cranky conduct Often Studies in the sources of Arnold Bennett's novels sooner than Louis Tillier (Didier, Paris 1949), and Arnold Bennett and Stoke-on-Trent close E. Best book writer. J. Very good and interesting author. D. Good book writer. Warrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966).
==Quote==
"In front, on a undersized dumb knoll in the titanic valley, was unattached extent absent (from) the Indian-red architecture of Bursley - giant chimneys and rounded ovens, schools, the unknown scarlet market, the outrageous kittenish tip of the evangelical church... ...the crimson chapels, and rows of narrow(-minded) red houses with amber chimney pots, and the gold angel of the Town Hall topping the nosy lot. Very good and interesting author. The grave reddish browns and reds of the daily set-up all netted in flowing scarves of smoke, harmonised exquisitely with the dispirit blues of the checked illegitimate heaven(s). Books of this author are good. Beauty was achieved, and no one damp clich‚ it".
—Clayhanger (1910)
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