Literature
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The Blackmailer of Park Lane by E.F. Benson
The Blackmailer of Park Lane was published in Benson’s story collection, The Countess of Lowndes Square, with stories about blackmail,…
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The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman by E.F. Benson
The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman is Benson’s sardonic story he calls a “crank” in The Countess of Lowndes Square and…
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A Letter Home by Arnold Bennett
A Letter Home was published in The Yellow Book, volume 6 (1895).Rain was falling—it had fallen steadily through the night—but…
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An Unfair Advantage by Arnold Bennett
IJames Peake and his wife, and Enoch Lovatt, his wife’s half-sister’s husband, and Randolph Sneyd, the architect, were just finishing…
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Catching the Train by Arnold Bennett
IArthur Cotterill awoke. It was not exactly with a start that he awoke, but rather with a swift premonition of…
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Half-a-Sovereign by Arnold Bennett
The scene was the up-platform of Knype railway station on a summer afternoon, and, more particularly, that part of the…
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Hot Potatoes by Arnold Bennett
I It was considered by certain people to be a dramatic moment in the history of musical enterprise in the…
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Jock-at-a-Venture by Arnold Bennett
IAll this happened at a Martinmas Fair in Bursley, long ago in the fifties, when everybody throughout the Five Towns…
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Mimi by Arnold Bennett
IOn a Saturday afternoon in late October Edward Coe, a satisfactory average successful man of thirty-five, was walking slowly along…
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The Blue Suit by Arnold Bennett
I was just going into my tailor’s in Sackville Street, when who should be coming out of the same establishment…
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