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PREFACE TO THIS EDITION This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book.

Arnold Bennett To W. W. K. PREFACE TO THIS EDITION In the autumn of 1903 I used to dine frequently in a restaurant in the Rue de Clichy, Paris.

The Duty of It 53 The Adventure of It 59 The Two Ways of It 65 VI...

CHAPTER I THE NEW LODGING I In the pupils' room of the offices of Lucas & Enwright, architects, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, George Edwin Cannon, an articled pupil, leaned over a large drawing-b...

T. Racksole & Daughter CONTENTS Chapter One.

_First Published November 1908 Second Edition September 1910 Third Edition April 1911 Fourth Edition August 1912 Fifth Edition January 1913 Sixth Edition August 1913_ CONTENTS I TAKING O...

CHAPTER I THE DANCE I Edward Henry Machin first saw the smoke on the 27th May 1867, in Brougham Street, Bursley, the most ancient of the Five Towns.

Chapter I THE PROMENADE The piece was a West End success so brilliant that even if you belonged to the intellectual despisers of the British theatre you could not hold up your head in the world ...

HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO Printed in 1914 CONTENTS PART I. SEEING LIFE PART II. WRITING NOVELS PART III. WRITING PLAYS PART IV. THE ARTIST AND THE PUBLIC PART I SEE...

LONDON Chatto & Windus 1917 _First published June 1917_ _Second Impression Aug. 1917_ PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS WEST NORWOOD LONDON TO HUGH WALPOLE PREFATORY NOTE The contents ...

CHAPTER I THE KINDLING OF LOVE The yard was all silent and empty under the burning afternoon heat, which had made its asphalt springy like turf, when suddenly the children threw themselves out of...

Edwin Clayhanger stood on the steep-sloping, red-bricked canal bridge, in the valley between Bursley and its suburb Hillport.

1912 BY THE SAME AUTHOR NOVELS A MAN FROM THE NORTH ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS LEONORA A GREAT MAN SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE WHOM GOD HATH JOINED BURIED ALIVE THE OLD WIVES' TALE THE GLIMPSE HEL...

CHAPTER I _The Puce Dressing-gown_ The peculiar angle of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic-- that angle which is chiefly responsible for our geography and therefore for our history-...

CHAPTER I AN EVENT IN MR. SKELLORN'S LIFE I The Lessways household, consisting of Hilda and her widowed mother, was temporarily without a servant.

CHAPTER I THE AIM CHAPTER II YOUR PARTICULAR CASE CHAPTER III WHY A CLASSIC IS A CLASSIC CHAPTER IV WHERE TO BEGIN CHAPTER V HOW TO READ A CLASSIC CHAPTER VI THE QUESTION...

CHAPTER I MONEY IN THE HOUSE I In the evening dimness of old Mrs. Maldon's sitting-room stood the youthful virgin, Rachel Louisa Fleckring.

CHAPTER I MY SPLENDID COUSIN I am eight years older now.

CHAPTER I MISS INGATE, AND THE YACHT Audrey had just closed the safe in her father's study when she was startled by a slight noise.

Chapter I The Secret Significance of Journalism For the majority of people the earth is a dull planet.

CHAPTER I BEGINNING OF THE IDYLL In the Five Towns human nature is reported to be so hard that you can break stones on it.

* * * * * First published January 1905 * * * * * TO MARCEL SCHWOB MY LITERARY GODFATHER IN FRANCE * * * * ...

CHAPTER I DOG-BITE I "And yet," Edward Henry Machin reflected as at six minutes to six he approached his own dwelling at the top of Bleakridge, "and yet--I don't feel so jolly after all!"

ILLUSTRATIONS THE GLORY OF FIFTH AVENUE INSPIRES EVEN THOSE ON FOOT _Frontispiece_ DISEMBARKING AT NEW YORK _Facing p._ 10 THE DOWN-TOWN BROADWAY OF CROWED S...

CHARACTERS _Hebrews_ JUDITH HAGGITH, her waiting-woman RAHEL OZIAS, Governor of Bethulia CHABRIS, an elder CHARMIS, an elder A SOLDIER A MESSENGER _Assyrians_ HOLOFERNES, General of the Assyr...

ARNOLD BENNETT To my old and constant friend JOSEPH DAWSON a student profoundly versed in the human nature of the Five Towns CONTENTS The Lion...

CHAPTER I HIS BIRTH On an evening in 1866 (exactly eight hundred years after the Battle of Hastings) Mr. Henry Knight, a draper's manager, aged forty, dark, clean-shaven, short, but not stout, s...

CHAPTER I There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.

CHAPTER I THE NEW POOR II FROM THE DEAD III THE LAW IV EVE'S HEADACHE V CHARLIE VI SISSIE VII THE SYMPATHETIC QUACK VIII SISSIE'S BUSINESS IX COLLISION X THE...

I - ALL MEANS AND NO END I The plain man on a plain day wakes up, slowly or quickly according to his temperament, and greets the day in a mental posture which might be thus expressed in words:...

36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _First Published_ _October 5th 1911_ _Second Edition_ _January 5th 1912_ _Third Edition_ _1914_ CHARACTE...

CHAPTER I THE DOME He wakened from a charming dream, in which the hat had played a conspicuous part.

1905 TO MY FRIEND EDEN PHILLPOTTS THE NOVELIST FOR WHOM MAN AND NATURE ARE INSEPARABLE WITH PROFOUND RESPECT FOR THE CLASSICAL DIGNITY OF HIS AIM AND EQUAL ADMIRATION FOR THE AUSTERE SPLENDO...

CHAPTER I THE HOUSEHOLD AT HILLPORT She was walking, with her customary air of haughty and rapt leisure, across the market-place of Bursley, when she observed in front of her, at the top of Oldc...

I The Zone Of Paris From the balcony you look down upon massed and variegated tree- tops as though you were looking down upon a valley forest from a mountain height.

ONE THE FACT Something has happened to Christmas, or to our hearts; or to both.

1913 CHARACTERS ILAM CARVE An illustrious Painter ALBERT SHAWN Ilam's Valet DR. PASCOE EDWARD HORNING Doctor's Assistant CYRUS CARVE Ilam's Cousi...

LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS MCMXVIII CHARACTERS MR. CULVER MRS. CULVER HILDEGARDE CULVER } their children JOHN CULVER } TRANTO MISS STARKEY SAMPSON STRAIGHT PARLOURMAID ACT I An evening ...