Literature
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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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The Cat and Cupid by Arnold Bennett
IThe secret history of the Ebag marriage is now printed for the first time. The Ebag family, who prefer their…
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The Fortune Teller by Arnold Bennett
IThe prologue to this somewhat dramatic history was of the simplest. The affair came to a climax, if one may…
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The Glimpse by Arnold Bennett
IWhen I was dying I had no fear. I was simply indifferent, partly, no doubt, through exhaustion caused by my…
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The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick by Arnold Bennett
I“Have you heard about Tommy Chadwick?” one gossip asked another in Bursley. “No.” “He’s a tram-conductor now.” This information occasioned…
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