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Arnold Bennett is famous for his realistic novels about the Five Towns - the 'Five Towns' being the pottery towns of his youth. His virtuosity as a writer was his manner of depicting simple things and ordinary people in an intriguing way for the readers. He has a warm and kind understanding for his characters, particularly when describing the intricate details of their dreary routine lives. (Enoch) Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in 1867. Arnold followed his father into the legal profession but at the age of 21, he decided to leave his father's firm and moved to London and worked as a solicitor's clerk. He won a literary competition in ""Tit Bits"" magazine in 1889 and in 1893 became assistant editor of the journal, Woman. He published his first essentially autobiographical novel The Man from the North in 1898. His best work is contained in his novels of the 'Five Towns' which include Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910), The Card (1911), Hilda Lessways (1911) and These Twain (1916). During the First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. He refused a knighthood in 1918. In 1926, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.
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Bennett writes magnificently of the little movements of the spirit in its daily routine.--Margaret Drabble
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- PublisherBenediction Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1849021120
- ISBN 13 9781849021128
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages536
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Benediction Classics, Oxford, 2009
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Minor bowing on front cover. Otherwise good. Bennett's novel of Darius Clayhanger, the self-made man rising from the workhouse to affluence in his Midlands community. But a domestic tyrant who insists his work should be carried on by his only son. All four volumes combined. 520 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £13 due to book's size. Seller Inventory # 449
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