I would love to take him under my wing, nourish his genius, and protect him from the world - except that I wouldn't manage to overthrow the indomitable Alice. An imitation that no one can distinguish from the original is naturally as good as the original" - or is it? It is not the plot that is the book’s attraction. On this I will spend just a few words. The central character, Priam Farll, is a renown English painter. He has achieved both money and fame, but he is shy, excessively shy! So he employs a valet--Henry Leek. Henry is Priam’s face to the outside world. Both are fifty. Both are bachelors, but Henry has a past of which he does not speak.

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Shapcott, John (2017). Arnold Bennett Companion, Vol. II. Leek, Staffs: Churnet Valley Books. ISBN 978-1-904546-91-7 Swinnerton, Frank (1978). Arnold Bennett: A Last Word. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-38-514545-9. The cast included Lionel Atwill, Gladys Cooper, Dennis Eadie, Mary Jerrold, Owen Nares and Haidee Wright. [55] https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/c.php?g=683072&p=4874816. {{ cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= ( help)

Lucas comments that the best of the novels written while in France – Whom God Hath Joined (1906), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), and Clayhanger (1910) – "justly established Bennett as a major exponent of realistic fiction". [3] In addition to these, Bennett published lighter novels such as The Card (1911). His output of literary journalism included articles for T. P. O'Connor's T. P.'s Weekly and the left-wing The New Age; his pieces for the latter, published under a pen-name, were concise literary essays aimed at "the general cultivated reader", [3] a form taken up by a later generation of writers including J. B. Priestley and V. S. Pritchett. [3] The Society was founded in 1954 "to promote the study and appreciation of the life, works and times not only of Arnold Bennett himself but also of other provincial writers, with particular relationship to North Staffordshire". In 2021 its president was Denis Eldin, Bennett's grandson; among the vice-presidents was Margaret Drabble. [145] BFI Screenonline: Piccadilly (1929)". www.screenonline.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 December 2015 . Retrieved 22 February 2021. Joyce’s later work was not restricted to the Vic. She became involved with West Midlands Arts, the WEA, Keele University adult education and BBC Radio Stoke. Sources: Arnold Bennett by Frank Swinnerton; Arnold Bennett by Margaret Drabble. [2] Adaptations by others [ edit ] Cinema [ edit ]

The imagealso records the loan of an aspidistra from a local garden centre to be used in the same production. Aspidistras were tremendously popular plants in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Some people call them “cast iron” plants. In the solicitors' office in London, Bennett became friendly with a young colleague, John Eland, who had a passion for books. Eland's friendship helped alleviate Bennett's innate shyness, which was exacerbated by a lifelong stammer. [3] [n 2] Together they explored the world of literature. Among the writers who impressed and influenced Bennett were George Moore, Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev. [11] He continued his own writing, and won a prize of twenty guineas from Tit-Bits in 1893 for his story 'The Artist's Model'; another short story, 'A Letter Home', was submitted successfully to The Yellow Book, where it featured in 1895 alongside contributions from Henry James and other well-known writers. [12]

Lucas concludes his study with the comment that Bennett's realism may be limited by his cautious assumption that things are as they are and will not change. Nevertheless, in Lucas's view, successive generations of reader have admired Bennett's best work, and future generations are certain to do so. [3] Crime fiction [ edit ] It was adapted into a 1921 film The Old Wives' Tale starring Fay Compton. It was made into a TV series by the BBC in 1988 as Sophia and Constance.Banfield, Stephen. "Goossens, Sir (Aynsley) Eugene", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, 1992. Retrieved 10 March 2021. This book IS fun! It stretches credibility, but it doesn’t matter. I enjoyed every minute spent with this book. Journals of Arnold Bennett: Libel Action Settled", The Times, 18 April 1935, p. 4; and "High Court of Justice", The Times, 23 November 1935, p. 4 In 1912 Bennett resettled permanently in England. His enormously popular play, The Great Adventure (1913), was based on his own novel Buried Alive (1908). During World War I he was active as a political propagandist as well as keeping up his other writing. The last Clayhanger novel, These Twain, appeared in 1916. Bennett, Arnold (2010). John Shapcott (ed.). Arnold Bennett's Uncollected Short Stories. Leek: Churnet Valley Books. ISBN 978-1-90-454674-0.