The Human Machine Summary
Arnold Bennett

TAKING ONESELF FOR GRANTED There are men who are capable of loving a machine more deeply than they can love a woman.  They are among the happiest men on earth.  This is not a sneer meanly sh... Read more

Biography EssayStraw 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... Read more

Modern readers are most likely to know Arnold Bennett as a novelist and journalist, but to his contemporaries he was also familiar as a dramatist. He began experimenting with the play form during his ... Read more

Arnold Bennett was born at 90 Hope Street in Hanley, one of the six towns that make up Stokeon-Trent, now as then the chief English home for the manufacture of pottery and china. The scene in Bennett'... Read more