The complete online text of Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett.

The English novelist and dramatist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was the author of The Old Wives' Tale, a masterpiece of realism. Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867, in Hanley, one of the pottery-making "Six Towns" of central England. The youth, called...

Enoch Arnold Bennett was a multifaceted celebrity in his day--novelist, short-story writer, critic, journalist, playwright, travelogue writer, prodigious letter writer, watercolorist, member of government, yachtsman--with diverse interests and phenomenal...

Straw was laid in the streets outside Chiltern Court, to deaden sounds, while Arnold Bennett lay dying in his flat there. It was the last time the city of London was to pay such respect to a public figure. To some extent this respect was nostalgic becaus...

Byline: Noah Deutsch, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Whether it's hordes of pint-sized pirates giggling by on Halloween or the Jolly Roger flying from tidy sailboats in Nantucket harbor, it seems that pirates are everywhere these days. Hollywood's recent success with the "Pirates of...

Byline: CURT BROWN; STAFF WRITER Sue Hunter Weir kneels into a crouch and sweeps some grass clippings off the headstone of Oscar Vaughn, a veteran of the U.S. Colored Infantry in the Civil War who died 80 years ago. Vaughn's headstone...