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Arnold Bennett was an English writer from 1867 to 1931 who became known for his novels and literary works during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is considered an important figure in English literature for his realistic depictions of provincial life and his prolific output across multiple literary genres.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 27 May 1867
- Died
- 27 March 1931
- Works
- 1331
Top works
- How to make the best of life
- How to be happy
- The journal of Arnold Bennett
- Literary taste
- How to live on twenty-four hours a day
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-08-03
- Active to
- 2023-07-21
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 274
- Total plays
- 1,811
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype
· 2019 · cited 13,697x
- Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels
· 1993 · cited 11,870x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,734x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
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Quotes
- “Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.”
- “The price of justice is eternal publicity.”
- “A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.”
- “Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.”
- “Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”
- “Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk
- Image
- Arnold Bennett - Project Gutenberg etext 13635.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1867-05-27
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- date of death
- 1931-01-01
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- name in native language
- Arnold Bennett
- birth name
- Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
Born into a modest but upwardly mobile family in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, Bennett was intended by his father, a solicitor, to follow him into the legal profession. Bennett worked for his father before moving to another law firm in London as a clerk at the age of 21. He became assistant editor and then editor of a women's magazine before becoming a full-time author in 1900. Always a devotee of French culture in general and French literature in particular, he moved to Paris in 1903; there the relaxed milieu helped him overcome his intense shyness, particularly with women. He spent ten years in France, marrying a Frenchwoman in 1907. In 1912 he moved back to England. He and his wife separated in 1921, and he spent the last years of his life with a new partner, an English actress. He died in 1931 of typhoid fever, having unwisely drunk tap-water in France.