The complete online text of The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns 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: RICHARD QUINN By Richard Quinn The Virginian-Pilot VIRGINIA BEACH Town Center may soon get another building, a low-rise office tower in the shadow of One Columbus Center. The five-story structure, named Two Columbus Center, would sit at the...

W5 Opened: 30 March. Where? Odyssey, 2 Queen's Quay, Belfast. What's on offer? W5 (it stands for who what where when why) is Northern Ireland's first interactive "discovery centre", with more than 100 hands- on exhibits. It is part of the...