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Arnold Bennett was born on 27 May 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, now part of Stoke-on-Trent but then a separate town. [1] [2] He was the eldest child of the three sons and three daughters [n 1] of Enoch Bennett (1843–1902) and his wife Sarah Ann, née Longson (1840–1914).
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.
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 ...
The Clayhanger Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918.Though the series is commonly referred to as a "trilogy", and the first three novels were published in a single volume, as The Clayhanger Family, in 1925, there are actually four books.
"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.
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Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives' Tale, Lord Raingo, Books and Persons, The Truth about an Author; John Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga, plays; Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage, Ashenden, The Gentleman in the Parlour, plays (The Circle, The Constant Wife, The Bread-Winner) Elizabeth von Arnim: Vera; Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
Nunnally Johnson read the Arnold Bennett book in 1928, and was surprised no one had turned it into a film. [5] As it turned out, Johnson was incorrect. The book had been made into a film twice in the United Kingdom, and by Paramount Pictures in the United States in 1933 under the title His Double Life. [6]