Mental Efficiency and Other Hints, Bennett Arnold

Автор: Bennett, Arnold
Название: The Old Wives` Tale
ISBN: 0099595354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099595359
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Описание: You might find it hard to imagine that those ageing spinsters living quietly in small English towns ever led lives of passion or hardship, that they ever possessed beauty or romantic ideals. This title tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartbreak, triumphs and disasters, to old age.

Автор: Bennett, Arnold
Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 2: Stories from the Five Towns
ISBN: 019479072X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194790727
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Описание: Word count 5,540

Автор: Bennett, Arnold
Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 3: The Card
ISBN: 0194791114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194791113
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Описание: Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?

Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: The Old Wives` Tale
ISBN: 1540488403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540488404
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Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: The Human Machine
ISBN: 1787247236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787247239
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Описание: The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: The Pretty Lady
ISBN: 178724721X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787247215
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Описание: The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett

Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: Clayhanger
ISBN: 1986982289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781986982283
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Описание: The Clayhanger Family, trilogy of semiautobiographical novels by Arnold Bennett. The first and best-known book of the three is Clayhanger (1910); it was followed by Hilda Lessways (1911) and These Twain (1915). They were published together in 1925. Set in the late 19th century in a drab potters' town in the industrial Midlands, Clayhanger begins the story of Edwin Clayhanger as he is attempting to wrest control of his life from his tyrannical and pragmatic father. Repressed and shy, he falls in love with Hilda Lessways, a forthright young woman who, despite her attraction to Edwin, marries another man. After many years he finds her living a broken, destitute life, her husband imprisoned for bigamy and her child thus considered illegitimate. In spite of all, Clayhanger still loves Hilda. Hilda Lessways, told from Hilda's point of view, chronicles her early life. In These Twain, Clayhanger and Hilda are married. He adopts her son, and the couple attempt to adapt their very different temperaments and routines to each other.

Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: The Old Wives` Tale
ISBN: 1536893471 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536893472
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Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: The Night Visitor and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
ISBN: 046434252X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780464342526
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Описание: Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films. "Having wakened in the middle of the night, Anthony, for some reason which he could not explain, began to read the Bible. He was not by habit an ardent reader, and particularly not an ardent reader of the Bible; but he always kept a Bible on the table by his bedside, in case he might feel a desire to read it, and he never felt the desire. Now, almost before being aware of the fact, lo he was reading the Bible, -the love-story of Amnon and Tamar."

Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: The Complete Original Edition
ISBN: 1250250676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250250674
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: Learn to use your most precious commodity - time - to truly live.

Автор: Bennett, Arnold
Название: Card
ISBN: 1849020957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849020954
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Автор: Bennett Arnold
Название: The Old Wives` Tale
ISBN: 1618956663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618956668
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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. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.

Bennett was initially inspired to write the book by a chance encounter in a Parisian restaurant. In the introduction to the book, he says

...an old woman came into the restaurant to dine. She was fat, shapeless, ugly, and grotesque. She had a ridiculous voice, and ridiculous gestures. It was easy to see that she lived alone, and that in the long lapse of years she had developed the kind of peculiarity which induces guffaws among the thoughtless.

and

I reflected, concerning the grotesque diner: "This woman was once young, slim, perhaps beautiful; certainly free from these ridiculous mannerisms. Very probably she is unconscious of her singularities. Her case is a tragedy. One ought to be able to make a heartrending novel out of the history of a woman such as she." Every stout, ageing woman is not grotesque--far from it --but there is an extreme pathos in the mere fact that every stout ageing woman was once a young girl with the unique charm of youth in her form and movements and in her mind. And the fact that the change from the young girl to the stout ageing woman is made up of an infinite number of infinitesimal changes, each unperceived by her, only intensifies the pathos.

Bennett also found inspiration in Maupassant's novel Une Vie. (wikipedia.org)