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Arnold Bennett. The Selected Works of Arnold Bennett: Essays, Personal Development Books & Articles
The Selected Works of Arnold Bennett: Essays, Personal Development Books & Articles
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Table of Contents
Journalism For Women
Chapter I. The Secret Significance of Journalism
Chapter II. Imperfections of the Existing Woman-Journalist
Chapter III. The Roads towards Journalism
Chapter IV. The Aspirant
Chapter V. Style
Chapter VI. The Outside Contributor
Chapter VII. The Search for Copy
Chapter VIII. The Art of Corresponding with an Editor
Chapter IX. Notes on the Leading Types of Papers
Chapter X "Woman's Sphere" in Journalism
Chapter XI. Conclusion
The Truth about an Author
Preface to the New Edition
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How to Become an Author
Chapter I. The Literary Career
Divisions of literature
Two Branches of Journalism: The Mechanical
The Literary Branch
Fiction
The Really Successful Novelist
The Sagacious Mediocrity
Non-Fictional Writing
Chapter II. The Formation of Style
An Art of Words
The Self-Education of the Aspirant
Writing
Two Difficulties
Style
Being One’s Self
Chapter III. Journalism
The Journalistic Attitude
The Sorts of Journals
First Efforts of the Freelance
Matters of Practical Detail
Final Counsel to the Freelance
Chapter IV. Short Stories
What Fiction is
The very Short Story
Process of Invention
The Execution
Models and Markets
The Magazine Short Story
Chapter V. Sensational and Other Serials
The Serial Generally
Manufacturing a Sensational Serial
Some Points
Domestic and Other Serials
Novelettes
Chapter VI. The Novel
The Sustained Effort
To Begin
Characterisation
Dialogue
Landscape, &c
Episodes
Some Minor Details
The Artistic Novel
Chapter VII. Non-fictional Writing
Two Kinds of Authors
1. Memoirs
2. Popular Biographies
3. Books about Towns and Districts
4. Adventurous Travel-Books
5. Books about Princes
6. Miscellaneous Monographs
7. Children’s Books
8. Essays
9. Verse
Chapter VIII. The Business Side of Books
The Beginning of Business
Publishers and their “Readers.”
The Agreement
Subsequent Proceedings
A Reputation
The Literary Agent
Chapter IX. The Occasional Author
Books by Non-Literary Experts
The Amateur’s Best Way
The Literary Assistant
Chapter X. Playwriting
Conditions of the Stage
Divisions of the Theatre
The Chance of Getting In
Writing a Marketable Play
The Curtain-Raiser
Longer Plays
The Reasonable Life
Mental Efficiency
I. The Appeal
II. The Replies
III. The Cure
IV. Mind Calisthenics
Expressing One’s Individuality
Breaking with the Past
Settling Down in Life
Success
I. Candid Remarks
II. The Successful and the Unsuccessful
III. The Inwardness of Success
Those Petty Artificialities
The Secret of Content
Literary Taste: How to Form It
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 of Style
Chapter VII. Wrestling with an Author
Chapter VIII. System in Reading
Chapter IX. Verse
Chapter X. Broad Counsels
Chapter XI. An English Library: Period I1
SUMMARY OF THE FIRST PERIOD
Chapter XII. An English Library: Period II
SUMMARY OF THE PERIOD
Chapter XIII. An English Library: Period III
SUMMARY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
GRAND SUMMARY OF COMPLETE LIBRARY
Chapter XIV. Mental Stocktaking
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Preface to This Edition
I. The Daily Miracle
II. The Desire to Exceed One's Programme
III. Precautions Before Beginning
IV. The Cause of the Troubles
V. Tennis and the Immortal Soul
VI. Remember Human Nature
VII. Controlling the Mind
VIII. The Reflective Mood
IX. Interest in the Arts
X. Nothing in Life is Humdrum
XI. Serious Reading
XII. Dangers to Avoid
The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book
One. The Fact
Two. The Reason
Three. The Solstice and Good Will
Four. The Appositeness of Christmas
Five. Defence of Feasting
Six. To Revitalize the Festival
Seven. The Gift of Oneself
Eight. The Feast of St. Friend
Nine. The Reaction
Ten. On the Last Day of the Year
Mental Efficiency
I. Mental Efficiency
THE APPEAL
THE REPLIES
THE CURE
MENTAL CALISTHENICS
II. Expressing One's Individuality
III. Breaking with the Past
IV. Settling Down in Life
V. Marriage
THE DUTY OF IT
THE ADVENTURE OF IT
THE TWO WAYS OF IT
VI. Books
THE PHYSICAL SIDE
THE PHILOSOPHY OF BOOK-BUYING
VII. Success
CANDID REMARKS
THE SUCCESSFUL AND THE UNSUCCESSFUL
THE INWARDNESS OF SUCCESS
VIII. The Petty Artificialities
IX. The Secret of Content
Those United States
I. The First Night
II. Streets
III. The Capitol and Other Sites
IV. Some Organizations
V. Transit and Hotels
VI. Sport and the Theater
VII. Education and Art
VIII. Citizens
Friendship and Happiness
Chapter I. The Fact
Chapter II. The Reason
Chapter III. The Solstice and Goodwill
Chapter IV. The Appositeness of Christmas
Chapter V. Defence of Feasting
Chapter VI. To Revitalize the Festival
Chapter VII. The Gift of Oneself
Chapter VIII. The Feast of St. Friend
Chapter IX. The Reaction
Chapter X. On the Last Day of the Year
Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People
Paris Nights. 1910
I. Artistic Evening
II. The Variétiés
III. Evening with Exiles
IV. Bourgeois
V. Cause Célèbre
VI. Russian Imperial Ballet at the Opera
Life in London. 1911
I. The Restaurant
II. By the River
III. The Club
IV. The Circus
V. The Banquet
VI. One of the Crowd
Italy. 1910
I. Night and Morning in Florence
II. The Seventh of May, 1910
III. More Italian Opera
The Riviera. 1907
I. The Hôtel Triste
II. War!
III. “Monte”
IV. A Diversion at San Remo
Fontainebleau. 1904-1909
I. First Journey Into the Forest
II. Second Journey Into the Forest
III. The Castle Gardens
IV. An Itinerary
Switzerland. 1909-1911
I. The Hotel on the Landscape
II. The Egoist
III. The Bland Wanderer
IV. On a Mountain
England Again. 1907
I. The Gate of the Empire
II. An Establishment
III. Amusements
IV. Manchester
V. London
VI. Industry
The Midlands. 1910-1911
I. The Hanbridge Empire
II. The Mysterious People
III. First Voyage to the Isle of Man
IV. The Island Boarding-House
V. Ten Hours at Blackpool
The British Home. 1908
I. An Evening at the Smiths’
II. The Great Manners Question
III. Spending-and Getting Value
IV. The Parents
V. Hamit’s Point of View
VI. The Future
Streets Roads and Trains. 1907-1909
I. In Watling Street
II. Street Talking
III. On the Road
IV. A Train
V. Another Train
The Author's Craft
Part I. Seeing Life
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Part II. Writing Novels
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Part III. Writing Plays
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Part IV. The Artist and the Public
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Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
I. The Zone Of Paris
II. On The French Front
III. Ruins
IV. At Grips
V. The British Lines
VI. The Unique City
Books and Persons: Selections from The New Age 1908-1911
Prefatory Note
1908
Wilfred Whitten's Prose
Ugliness in Fiction
Letters of Queen Victoria
French Publishers
Wordsworth's Single Lines
Novelists and Agents
The Novel of the Season
German Expansion
The Book-Buyer
Joseph Conrad & the Athenæum
The Professors
Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines
W.W. Jacobs and Aristophanes
Kenneth Grahame
Anatole France
Intimations of Immortality
Mallarmé, Bazin, Swinburne
The Ruined Season
1909
Ecce Homo
Henry Ospovat
French and British Academies
Poe and the Short Story
Middle-Class
The Potential Public
H.G. Wells
Tchehkoff
The Surrey Labourer
Swinburne
The Sevenpennies
Meredith
St. John Hankin
Unclean Books
Love Poetry
Trollope's Methods
Chesterton and Lucas
Official Recognition of Poetry
Artists and Critics
Rudyard Kipling
Censorship by the Libraries
1910
Censorship by the Libraries
Brieux
C.E. Montague
Publishers and Authors
Tourgeniev and Dostoievsky
John Galsworthy
Suppressions in "De Profundis"
Holiday Reading
The British Academy of Letters
Unfinished Perusals
Mr. A.C. Benson
The Literary Periodical
The Length of Novels
Artists and Money
Henri Becque
Henry James
English Literary Criticism
Mrs. Elinor Glyn
W.H. Hudson
Neo-Impressionism and Literature
1911
Books of the Year
"The New Machiavelli"
Success in Journalism
Marguerite Audoux
John Masefield
Lectures and State Performances
A Play of Tchehkoff's
Sea and Slaughter
A Book in a Railway Accident
"Fiction" and "Literature"
Self and Self-Management
Running Away From Life
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Some Axioms About War-Work
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The Diary Habit
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A Dangerous Lecture to a Young Woman
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The Complete Fusser
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The Meaning of Frocks
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Things That Have Interested Me
NOTE
Operatic Performances
Jerry Oxford
The Old Fellows and the New
In Calais Harbour During Mobilisation
A Great Responsibility
Women at War-Work
"Funny Stories"
Grimness and Optimism
The Appeal to Providence
The Rosenkavalier
Translating Literature Into Life
After Asquith
More Efficient Housekeeping
The Barber
Sacking
Bicarbonate of Soda
The Casino Ball
Dinner of the Syndicate of Literary Critics, Paris
Going Down a Coal-pit
Self-control
Rationing Petrol
Durand Ruel
Football Match
Psychology of Russia
Railway Accident at Mantes
The Paper-shortage
The Patriot's Reward
Style
Finishing Books
Politics and Morals
Flag-days
Privilege of Dogma
The Royal Academy
Gaming
A Judgment
Plate-breaking
The Truth About Revolutions
A General
Ministerial Candour
What is Wrong with the Theatre?
The Farmer's Attitude
Freedom of Discussion
Wagner After the War
Charity Carnivals
A Legal Banquet
Musical Composers Who Get a Hearing
"Cannot Read a Note
Free-handedness
Hardships of the Ruling Class
Caillaux
Teaching History
For and Against Prohibition
Hindle Wakes
Hotel Mornings
English Society in the Nineties
Certain Profiteers
Brains and Eating
A Transatlantic View
After the March Offensive
The Royal Academy Again
J. G. Bennett
Portuguese Streets
Saccharine
The Jockey Club
Balzac's Technique
Tailoring
A First Night
The Inquisition on "Seasons"
Interpreting the Gospel
International
The Siege of Paris
Madsen Gun Rumours
Fatigue
The Railway Guide
Pavlova at the Palace
Echo de Paris
A Canadian Banquet
Slump in Pessimism
Short Stories
Byron on the Stage
Coupons
The Merry Widow
Travel and Politics
Pro-Germanism
Foch
Miscellaneous Reading
Prayer
Respect for Brains
Egyptology
Play-Licensing
Rostand
The Cornet at Elections
Two Generals
An Officer's Grievance
At a Public Dinner
Life of a Girl
The Octogenarian
Morphia
Prophylaxis
At the Quai d'Orsay Terminus, Paris
Street Cries
After the Armistice
Orthodoxy
Cartoonists
Sunday Theatres
Rops
Sex Equality
French Juries
In the Tube
Ritualism
The Prize Fight
Patrons of the Opera
The Guitrys
Women's Education in 1920
Biography
The League of Nations in 1920
The Desire for France
Paris Flats
Paris Streets
Graphic Art in Paris
Players and Authors
Henry James
The Human Machine
I. Taking Oneself for Granted
II. Amateurs in the Art of Living
III. The Brain as a Gentleman-at-Large
IV. The First Practical Step
V. Habit-Forming by Concentration
VI. Lord Over the Noddle
VII. What 'Living' Chiefly Is
VIII. The Daily Friction
IX. 'Fire!'
X. Mischievously Overworking It
XI. An Interlude
XII. An Interest in Life
XIII. Success and Failure
XIV. A Man and His Environment
XV. L.S.D
XVI. Reason, Reason!
