The complete online text of The Ghost 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...

The Darkest Spark, the first full-length from the Toronto-based music collective/indie-pop outfit the Ghost is Dancing, is an audio road trip for the listener. The Ghost is Dancing draws you through Lake Ontario (singing “You won’t come to Toronto? / I’ll bring you here, I’ll...

Roman Polanski will direct a film adaptation of "The Ghost," the best-selling political thriller by Robert Harris.Random House Group, the book's publisher, said Polanski and Harris are collaborating on a screenplay. Filming is due to begin in northern Europe next year.The book's narrator is a...

Pheng Chea says the ghost came to him in a dream.The spirit of the victim of the Khmer Rouge regime showed a gold necklace to the 29-year-old peasant, and told him to dig it out from her grave.He found the gold near a big tree...