The Greatest Works of Arnold Bennett
Five Towns Novels and Staffordshire Stories of Ambition, Family, Commerce, and Social ChangeBy Arnold Bennett
Length359h 38m
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The Greatest Works of Arnold Bennett gathers the central achievements of a writer who transformed the provincial novel into a form of serious social observation. Set largely in the industrial Potteries and the imagined Five Towns, Bennett's fiction examines marriage, ambition, class, commerce, religion, and the quiet pressures of ordinary life. Works such as The Old Wives' Tale, Clayhanger, Anna of the Five Towns, and Riceyman Steps display his characteristic realism: patient, richly particular, psychologically alert, and attentive to the shaping force of environment. Alongside narrative breadth, his prose reveals an understated irony and a democratic interest in lives often neglected by more fashionable literary traditions. The collection places his novels within the transition from Victorian realism to modern twentieth-century fiction. Born in Hanley in 1867, Bennett drew deeply upon the Staffordshire industrial landscape of his childhood, whose factories, streets, shops, and dissenting communities became the imaginative foundation of his mature work. His early employment in a solicitor's office and later success as an editor and journalist cultivated the disciplined observation, practical intelligence, and concern with self-improvement evident throughout his writing. His years in London and France further broadened his cultural perspective, while his engagement with popular nonfiction established him as an unusually versatile literary professional. This volume is recommended to readers seeking a substantial introduction to Bennett's achievement and to those interested in the development of English realism. It offers both narrative pleasure and a penetrating record of social change, making it valuable for students of class, regional identity, domestic life, and the history of the modern novel.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length359 hrs 38 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Bessy Rane (Annotated)
2The Greatest Works of Arnold Bennett
3Novels
4A Man from the North
5Chapter I
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6Chapter II
7Chapter III
8Chapter IV
9Chapter V
10Chapter VI
11Chapter VII
12Chapter VIII
13Chapter IX
14Chapter X
15Chapter XI
16Chapter XII
17Chapter XIII
18Chapter XIV
19Chapter XV
20Chapter XVI
21Chapter XVII
22Chapter XVIII
23Chapter XIX
24Chapter XX
25Chapter XXI
26Chapter XXII
27Chapter XXIII
28Chapter XXIV
29Chapter XXV
30Chapter XXVI
31Chapter XXVII
32Chapter XXVIII
33Chapter XXIX
34Chapter XXX
35Chapter XXXI
36Chapter XXXII
37The Grand Babylon Hotel
38Chapter One The Millionaire and the Waiter
39Chapter Two How Mr Racksole Obtained His Dinner
40Chapter Three At Three A.M.
41Chapter Four Entrance of the Prince
42Chapter Five What Occurred to Reginald Dimmock
43Chapter Six In the Gold Room
44Chapter Seven Nella and the Prince
45Chapter Eight Arrival and Departure of the Baroness
46Chapter Nine Two Women and the Revolver
47Chapter Ten At Sea
48Chapter Eleven The Court Pawnbroker
49Chapter Twelve Rocco and Room No. 111
50Chapter Thirteen In the State Bedroom
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