The Old Wives' Tale (1908) by: Arnold Bennett. ( NOVEL )

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Buried Alive is a 1908 comedy novel by the British writer Arnold Bennett. In 1913 Bennett adapted it as a play The Great Adventure. This later provided the basis for the 1968 musical Darling of the Day. Bennett dabbled in crime fiction, in The Grand Babylon Hotel and The Loot of Cities (1905). In Queen's Quorum (1951), a survey of crime fiction, Ellery Queen listed the latter among the 100 most important works in the genre. This collection of stories recounts the adventures of a millionaire who commits crimes to achieve his idealistic ends. Although it was "one of his least known works," it was nevertheless "of unusual interest, both as an example of Arnold Bennett's early work and as an early example of dilettante detectivism". [144] Legacy [ edit ] Arnold Bennett Society [ edit ] Statue of Bennett outside the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Blum, Beth (2020). The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-23-119492-1. He had wanted to be free, and free he was... But it appeared to him very remarkable that so much could happen, in so short a time, as the result of a momentary impulsive prevarication." Watson, George; Ian R. Willison (1972). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08535-9.

By Arnold Bennett

Bennett was born in Hanley, Stoke on Trent in 1867. He is best known as a novelist and, from the 1890s to 1930s, completed 34 novels as well as volumes of short stories. He also wrote articles for newspapers, journals and, in the 1920s, wrote for the cinema. Many of his novels are set in a fictional version of Stoke-on-Trent - the 'Five Towns'. He passionately believed that literature should be accessible to all and in this regard shared the Vic Theatre’s approach to drama and all things cultural. Bennett died after contracting typhoid in Paris in 1931. Bennett, Arnold (2011). John Shapcott (ed.). Lord Dover and Other Lost Stories. Leek: Churnet Valley Books. ISBN 978-1-90-454681-8. En cierta manera encuentro cierta conexión entre esta novela y el cuento “Wakefield” de Nathaniel Hawthorne con la diferencia de que Wakefield se esconde en la oscuridad y el ostracismo para no dejarse ver ni por su esposa ni por nadie durante veinte años cuando decide regresar. De todas maneras, la similitud entre la decisión inicial de Priam Farll y de Wakefield se asemejan. From 1877 to 1882, Bennett's schooling was at the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem, followed by a year at a grammar school in Newcastle-under-Lyme. He was good at Latin and better at French; [5] he had an inspirational headmaster who gave him a love for French literature and the French language that lasted all his life. [6] He did well academically and passed Cambridge University examinations that could have led to an Oxbridge education, but his father had other plans. In 1883, aged 16, Bennett left school and began work – unpaid – in his father's office. He divided his time between uncongenial jobs, such as rent collecting, during the day, and studying for examinations in the evening. He began writing in a modest way, contributing light pieces to the local newspaper. [3] He became adept in Pitman's shorthand, a skill much sought after in commercial offices, [7] and on the strength of that he secured a post as a clerk at a firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. [8] In March 1889, aged 21, he left for London and never returned to live in his native county. [3] [9] First years in London [ edit ] Lincoln's Inn Fields in 2018 In the solicitors' office in London, Bennett became friendly with a young colleague, John Eland, who had a passion for books. Eland's friendship helped alleviate Bennett's innate shyness, which was exacerbated by a lifelong stammer. [3] [n 2] Together they explored the world of literature. Among the writers who impressed and influenced Bennett were George Moore, Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev. [11] He continued his own writing, and won a prize of twenty guineas from Tit-Bits in 1893 for his story 'The Artist's Model'; another short story, 'A Letter Home', was submitted successfully to The Yellow Book, where it featured in 1895 alongside contributions from Henry James and other well-known writers. [12]

Hilda Lessways: BBC 1959 – six-part dramatisation of Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways, with Judi DenchThe literary modernists of his day deplored Bennett's books, and those of his well-known contemporaries H. G. Wells and John Galsworthy. [133] [134] Of the three, Bennett drew the most opprobrium from modernists such as Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis who regarded him as representative of an outmoded and rival literary culture. [133] There was a strong element of class-consciousness and snobbery in the modernists' attitude: [135] Woolf accused Bennett of having "a shopkeeper's view of literature" and in her essay " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" accused Bennett, Galsworthy and Wells of ushering in an "age when character disappeared or was mysteriously engulfed". [136]

Brief synopsis: Prima Farll is a famous painter who is notoriously shy — nobody has seen him in years — and one night his personal valet, Henry Leek, dies of acute double pneumonia. Rather than tell the doctor who tends to Leek that he is the famous Priam Farll he panics and says that he is Henry Leek and the man who died of pneumonia is Priam Farll. Just a minor white lie. 😊 And thus the real but dead Henry Leek is mourned as a national treasure by England (they think he is Priam Farll) and is by buried in Valhalla (I don’t know what Valhalla is…originally in the novel he was going to be buried at Westminster Abbey). So — Priam Farll is alive only to him…to everybody else Priam Farll is dead and buried and Henry Leek is still alive. And the very much alive Priam Farll then has to face the consequences of his action on taking on the life of Henry Leek, which includes getting married among other things. Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial and he was the most financially successful British author of his day. The traditional omelette was served at the Savoy until 2021. [162] In 2022 the omelette was replaced with a soufflé Arnold Bennett, with the same essential ingredients. [163] It is not the plot that is the book’s attraction. On this I will spend just a few words. The central character, Priam Farll, is a renown English painter. He has achieved both money and fame, but he is shy, excessively shy! So he employs a valet--Henry Leek. Henry is Priam’s face to the outside world. Both are fifty. Both are bachelors, but Henry has a past of which he does not speak.The Woman who Stole Everything; A Place in Venice; The Toreador; Middle-aged; The Umbrella; House to Let; Claribel; Time to think; One of their Quarrels This programme is from a production of The Cardby local author Arnold Bennett which was performed at the Victoria Theatre in August 1973. It was the fifth adaptation of Bennett's work performed by the Victoria Theatre. The programme also shows the Archive's honorary curator, Romy Cheeseman (nee Saunders), as a member of the cast in this production. The English novelist, journalist and playwright Arnold Bennett wrote prolifically between 1898 and his death in 1931. This is a list of his published books and adaptations of his works for stage and screen. Enterrado en vida” es una novela es fresca y dinámica, que posee una fina ironía en muchas de sus líneas, con una narrativa fluida y diálogos precisos. Agate, James (1943) [1942]. Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate. London: Harrap. OCLC 16572017.