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...

"Our Christ is not a dead Christ," my father repeated. He was objecting to the Catholic cult of the crucifix. "The cross is an empty cross. Our Lord is all powerful." So he believed in the charismatic gifts, and above all in healing. But...

"We've got skyscrapers tall as the sky, more than a hunart stories high," Jeff told his cousins Carol and Jimmy. "And sometimes the traffic's so bad you can't even get to town!" Jeff was still not happy at being left with Aunt Tia in...

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...