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Bennett, Arnold [Edited by Newman Flower]: The Journals of Arnold Bennett II 19111921, London Cassell and Company 1932
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Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the family were able to move to a larger house between Hanley and Burslem. The younger Bennett was educated locally in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Arnold was employed by his father, his duties included rent collecting. He was unhappy working for his father as he was rather mean. In his spare time he found time to do a little journalism. At age the age of twenty-one he left his father's practice and went to London as a solicitor's clerk. He won a literary competition in Tit Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full time. In 1894 he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for 75. He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over four years later his first novel A Man from the North was published to critical acclaim and he became editor to the magazine. From 1900 he devoted himself full time to writing, giving up the editorship and writing much serious criticism, and also theatre journalism, one of his special interests. He moved to Trinity Hall Farm, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire on Watling Street which was the inspiration for his novel Teresa of Watling Street which came out in 1904. His father Enoch Bennett died there in 1902, and he is buried in Chalgrove churchyard. In 1902 Anna of the Five Towns, the first of a succession of stories which detailed life in the Potteries, appeared. In 1903 he moved to Paris, where other great artists from around the world had converged on Montmartre and Montparnasse. Bennett spent the next eight years writing novels and plays. In 1908 The Old Wives' Tale was published, and was an immediate success throughout the English-speaking world. After a visit to America in 1911 where he had been publicised and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since Dickens, he returned to England where the Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed as a masterpiece. During the First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. He refused a knighthood in 1918. He won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Riceyman Steps and in 1926 at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper. First Edition Very Good Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives' Tale, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911
No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Old Wives' Tale; Bennett, Arnold: New York, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d, (1911). 8vo. 612 pages. Red cloth, gilt block for titles. Fair copy. Tight and clean inte rbnally, but covers bumped and rubbed at corners, spine ends and spine edges, faded on spine marks on covers, stain on top edge. New preface by author dated 1911. A nice low cost reading copy
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Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives' Tale, London Dent and Sons 1948
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Bennett, Arnold; The Old Wives' Tale: London, Dent & Sons, 1948. Everyman's Library. Hardcover on dj. Red Cloth Boards with stamped design on upper, paper jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Some crinkles and rubs to jacket spine ends. 517pp + ads. A nice tight little book Very Good Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Bennett, Arnold: The novels of Arnold Bennett, G.H. Doran Co. [etc 1913 ISBN: B0008636VQ
Nice Tight copy ! Previous owner initials. 420 pages. The Matador of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' tale, helen with the High Hand, Whom God Hath Joined, Anna of the Five Towns, A Man From the North, The Book of Carlotta, Buried Alive, The Glimpse, A Great Man, Leonora. Condition:Very Good No Jacket Binding Type:Hardcover 8vo over 7.75 - 9.75'' tall
[SW: Fiction Antique:General The Matador of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' tale, helen with the High Hand, Wh Fiction Antique:General]