The complete online text of Mr. Prohack 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...

MR. and Mrs. Bridge Softenings Mr. and Mrs. Bridge is based on the two celebrated novels that Evan S. Connell wrote ten years apart. In Mrs. Bridge, he told the story from the point of view of the docile upper-middle-class housewife in...

PARENTS have grown so used to the image of obese children that they are no longer able to tell if their own sons and daughters are overweight, a study has revealed. It found 40 per cent of parents were not concerned about their...