Arnold Bennett

In the industrial heart of Victorian England, Anna is dominated by her father and the strict Methodist community. Inheriting a fortune does not free her from subjugation: every direction has an obstacle and Anna must choose between the ambitious Henry Mynors and the sensitive Willie Price.

First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale tells the story of the Baines sisters: shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia, over the course of nearly half a century....

It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust....

This classic personal time-management book, originally published in 1908, has inspired generations of men and women to live deliberate lives....

Set in industrial Staffordshire in the late 19th century, against a strong evangelical background, Anna of the Five Towns tells of the courting of hard businessman Ephraim Tellright's daughter....

The Card is the story of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, who rises from washerwoman's son to the Mayor of Bursley via a mixture of gentle deceit and personal hype....

A spectacular collection of outstanding half-hour short stories...perfect for commuters or bedtime listening....

Arnold Bennett's... splendidly comic portrayal of Edward Henry Machin....

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Arnold Bennett's tale of love, tyranny and rebellion, 'Anna of the Five Towns'. Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit a...

Learn to use your most precious commodity—time—to truly live. Arnold Bennett’s classic book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, has been changing the way people use and consider their time since it was first published in 1910. In the intervening century surprisingly little has changed—we...

A rich collection of diverse and fascinating stories by famous classic authors....

Red Door audiobooks presents 46 classic tales of the strange from some of the greatest writers of all time....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness....

Spanning nearly half a century, The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope....

Helen Rathbone meets her elderly uncle, James Ollerenshaw, in Bursley Park, after an estrangement of several years....

In this audiobook, Arnold Bennett offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing ) within the confines of 24 hours a day....

Bennett bathes us in vignettes of life, replete with characters that are easy to immerse ourselves in, whatever their ambitions may be....

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and more....

When American millionaire Theodore Racksole and his 23-year-old daughter Nella stumble upon The Grand Babylon Hotel, an exclusive London establishment, they are so struck by the fascinating building that Theodore decides to purchase it....