Things That Interest Me

First Edition. Numbered copy: # 90 of 100 copies; signed by the author. Original cloth with paper label. Journal entries from Arnold Bennett's personal writing; with introduction by George Sturt. Printed for Christmas. Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. He began his working career as a law clerk and later he left the legal field and became an editor for the magazine Woman. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films (during the First World War, Bennett became Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information). His first novel was A Man from the North. He wrote several novels set in Hanley, the town where he was born, these novels are commonly referred to as the Five Town novels. Other titles include The Babylon Hotel, The Truth about an Author, and How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. Bennett died in London of typhoid fever on March 27, 1931. Very Good. Some pages uncut. Hardcover, minor chips to paper label.…