Arnold Bennett: Essays, Personal Development Books, Autobiographical Works & Articles (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Mental Efficiency, Self and Self-Management, The Human Machine, The Reasonable LifeBy Arnold Bennett
Length57h 50m
About this audiobook
Arnold Bennett: Essays, Personal Development Books, Autobiographical Works & Articles gathers the many-sided prose of a writer best known for fiction yet equally significant as a cultural critic and practical moralist. These pieces range from literary journalism and reflections on modern life to disciplined guides such as his celebrated works on time, reading, and self-cultivation. Bennett's style is lucid, urbane, briskly argumentative, and often wry; it belongs to the Edwardian moment when literature, professionalism, and mass readership were being newly negotiated. Bennett's own career helps explain the collection's characteristic energy. Born in the Staffordshire Potteries, trained in law, and made famous by novels of provincial life, he also worked as a journalist, editor, playwright, and public intellectual. His movement from modest origins to metropolitan literary success informs his persistent interest in habit, ambition, efficiency, taste, and the education of the self. He wrote not from abstraction but from experience. This volume is recommended for readers interested in Bennett beyond The Old Wives' Tale, and for anyone studying early twentieth-century literary culture. It offers both historical insight and unexpectedly durable counsel on reading, work, attention, and the making of a cultivated life.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length57 hrs 50 mins
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Publish dateAug 25, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Arnold Bennett: Essays, Personal Development Books, Autobiographical Works & Articles (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Arnold Bennett: Essays, Personal Development Books, Autobiographical Works & Articles
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6Journalism For Women
7Chapter I. The Secret Significance of Journalism
8Chapter II. Imperfections of the Existing Woman-Journalist.
9Chapter III. The Roads towards Journalism
10Chapter IV. The Aspirant
11Chapter V. Style
12Chapter VI. The Outside Contributor
13Chapter VII. The Search for Copy
14Chapter VIII. The Art of Corresponding with an Editor
15Chapter IX. Notes on the Leading Types of Papers
16Chapter X. "Woman's Sphere" in Journalism
17Chapter XI. Conclusion
18The Truth about an Author
19Preface to the New Edition
20I
21II
22III
23IV
24V
25VI
26VII
27VIII
28IX
29X
30XI
31XII
32XIII
33XIV
34XV
35XVI
36How to Become an Author
37Chapter I. The Literary Career
38Chapter II. The Formation of Style
39Chapter III. Journalism
40Chapter IV. Short Stories
41Chapter V. Sensational and Other Serials
42Chapter VI. The Novel
43Chapter VII. Non-fictional Writing
44Chapter VIII. The Business Side of Books
45Chapter IX. The Occasional Author
46Chapter X. Playwriting
47The Reasonable Life
48Mental Efficiency
49Expressing One’s Individuality
50Breaking with the Past
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