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Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words.
The English novelist, journalist and playwright Arnold Bennett wrote prolifically between 1898 and his death in 1931. This is a list of his published books and adaptations of his works for stage and screen.
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908.It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age.
In the book, Bennett offers the following advice: View the 24-hour day as two separate days, one encompassing the 8-hour workday and the other a 16-hour personal day to be accounted for and utilized. Train your mind daily to focus on a single thing continuously for an extended period, 50 minutes in his "average case" example. Reflect on yourself.
"The Five Towns" is a name given to it in novels by Arnold Bennett, who was born in Hanley and lived in the district. He said that he believed "Five Towns" was more euphonious than "Six Towns", so he omitted Fenton (sometimes referred to as "the forgotten town"). He called Stoke "Knype" but used recognisable aliases for the other four towns.
In The Card (1952), a "droll" adaptation of Arnold Bennett's eponymous novel, [1] she was Alec Guinness' main love interest, dance teacher Ruth Earp, about which The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote, "Miss Johns' self-propelling young lady is a bundle of feminine guile." [46] ['The Blue Lamp' (1950) is included in Glynis Johns' filmography ...
Tony Bennett’s legacy will live on through the music he “delighted in performing,” his wife, Susan Benedetto, and eldest son, Danny Bennett, said following his death. The beloved singer died ...
Lord Birkenhead expressed concern that Bennett was using real people within his novels, to which Bennett responded that he had discounted this suggestion numerous times already, stating that "If a novelist is entitled to deal with modern politics, then in order to obtain verisimilitude he must devise, for some of his personages, individuals who ...