Автор: Bennett, Arnold Название: The Old Wives` Tale ISBN: 0099595354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099595359 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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 3: The Card ISBN: 0194791114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194791113 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 16860.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. 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: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 2: Stories from the Five Towns ISBN: 019479072X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194790727 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 6200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Word count 5,540
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) Рейтинг: Цена: 6750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Learn to use your most precious commodity - time - to truly live.
Автор: Bennett Arnold Название: The Old Wives` Tale ISBN: 1618956655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618956651 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 29050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
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.
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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)
Автор: Bennett Arnold Название: Riceyman Steps ISBN: 1644390280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644390283 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop owner in the Clerkenwell area of London.
Arnold Bennett was a keen amateur sailor and it was while on sailing trips on the Solent he discovered a chaotic second-hand bookshop in Southampton. He would visit the shop when bad weather prevented sailing and on one visit he bought a book on misers for sixpence. This book and the shop itself became the inspiration for this novel. Bennett also loved the Clerkenwell district of London which with its unpretentious working class life reminded him of his own origins in the Potteries. The location Riceyman Steps was modelled on Granville Place (now Gwynne Place) the steps of which lead up from the Kings Cross Road to Granville Square. Bennett's steps are "twenty in number, ... divided by a half-landing into two series of ten", whereas the steps of Granville Place number (from the bottom) fifteen, with eleven more from the half-landing. Granville Square, now a residential square containing a small park, was in 1923 dominated by St Philip's Church, which was demolished in 1936. (wikipedia.org)
Автор: Bennett Arnold Название: The Pretty Lady ISBN: 178724721X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787247215 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett
Автор: Bennett Arnold Название: The Human Machine ISBN: 1787247236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787247239 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett
Автор: Bennett Arnold Название: Mental Efficiency and Other Hints ISBN: 1787247228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787247222 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Mental Efficiency And Other Hints by Arnold Bennett
Автор: Bennett Arnold Название: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day ISBN: 1787247201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787247208 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
Автор: Bennett Arnold Название: The Card ISBN: 1787247198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787247192 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Card by Arnold Bennett
