The Ghost [Hardcover]

Arnold Bennett (Author), 1stWorld Library (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2006

I am eight years older now. It had never occurred to me that I am advancing in life and experience until, in setting myself to recall the various details of the affair, I suddenly remembered my timid confusion before the haughty mien of the clerk at Keith

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About the Author

Enoch Arnold Bennett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Hanley, Staffordshire. At twenty-one, he moved to London, initially to work as a solicitor's clerk, but he soon turned to writing popular serial fiction and editing a women's magazine. After the publication of his first novel, A Man From the North in 1898, he became a professional writer. He moved to Paris and became a man of cosmopolitan and discerning tastes. Bennett's great reputation is built upon the success of his novels and short stories set in the Potteries, an area of north Staffordshire that he recreated as the 'Five Towns'. Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale show the influence of Flaubert, Maupassant and Balzac as Bennett describes provincial life in great detail. Arnold Bennett is an important link between the English novel and European realism. He wrote several plays and lighter works such as The Grand Babylon Hotel and The Card. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society (December 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421829304
• ISBN-13: 978-1421829302
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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