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Mental efficiency Mental efficiency Arnold Bennett The mind can only be conquered by regular meditation, by deciding beforehand what direction its activity ought to take, and insisting that its activity takes that direction; also by never leaving it … OL109124W
These twain These twain Arnold Bennett TV tie-in with ATV series OL109210W
The Author's Craft The Author's Craft Arnold Bennett The author of The Grand Babylon Hotel, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, The Old Wives' Tale and much more, English writer Arnold Bennett's fictional and non-fictional works have stood the test of time.… OL109217W
The roll-call The roll-call Arnold Bennett This is the fourth, often neglected, book of the 'Clayhanger Series', and concerns the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George Edwin Cannon (he quickly dropped the surname Clayhanger), is … OL109228W
Anna of the Five Towns Anna of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett,Frank Swinnerton Set in the Potteries, the region in which Bennett spent much of his youth, this is the story of a miser's daughter who inherits a fortune. She stands out as a spirited, complex modern woman in a stif… OL109233W
The Grand Babylon Hotel The Grand Babylon Hotel Arnold Bennett Thronging with princes, diplomats, beautiful heiresses and international conspirators, the sumptuous suites and corridors of the Grand Babylon are buzzing with gossip, intrigue — even murder. The act… OL109235W
Murder Most Foul Murder Most Foul Freeman Wills Crofts,Thomas Burke,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy L. Sayers,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Ray Bradbury,Margery Allingham,Alfred McLelland Burrage,Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards,Georges Simenon,Simon Brett,Agatha Christie,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Arnold Bennett,William Somerset Maugham,P. D. James,John Collier,Isaac Asimov,Mann Rubin,Algernon Blackwood,Eddy C. Bertin,Jack London,Winston Graham,Maurice Level,Edmund Crispin,Jókai, Mór The fruit at the bottom of the bowl / Ray Bradbury Murder! / Arnold Bennett The kennel / Maurice Level We knows you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin A thousand deaths / Jack London Back for Chri… OL17850834W
Great humorous stories Great humorous stories Harry Secombe,Bret Harte,Barry Pain,Seán O'Faoláin,Basil Boothroyd,Iris Murdoch,P. G. Wodehouse,Geoffrey Willans,H. F. Ellis,George S. Kaufman,David Niven,Nathaniel Gubbins,Douglas Sutherland,Phyllis Eleanor Bentley,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy Parker,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,John Verney,O. Henry,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Max Apple,John Wyndham,Burdette, Robert J.,Rudyard Kipling,Frederic Raphael,Douglas Adams,Peter Ustinov,Arnold Bennett,Gerald Malcolm Durrell,James Herriot,Mole, John,William Somerset Maugham,David Nobbs,Groucho Marx,Keith Waterhouse,Alasdair Gray,Bob Larbey,Ronald Searle,Rob Buckman,Sue Townsend,Paul Theroux,George Grossmith,Auberon Waugh,Arthur Marshall,Stephen Leacock,Ring Lardner,E. F. Benson,Neil Boyd,Fran Lebowitz,C. Northcote Parkinson,Saki,Weedon Grossmith,Giovannino Guareschi,Robert Robinson,Nancy Mitford,Joyce Grenfell,Art Buchwald,Damon Runyon,E. M. Delafield,A. C. Games,Jean Davis,Patrick Campbell RONNIE CORBETT: *Introduction* P.G. WODEHOUSE: *'The Voice from the Past'* RING LARDNER: *Mr and Mrs Fix-It* H.F. ELLIS: *Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott* (from *The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA*) … OL19302720W
Romance Romance W. S. Gilbert,Mark Twain,Joseph Conrad,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,O. Henry,Wilkie Collins,Rudyard Kipling,Robert Louis Stevenson,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Arnold Bennett,Rosemary Gray,James Joyce,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Kate Chopin,George Gissing,Saki,Katherine Mansfield Love in the night / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- An inverted love story / W.S. Gilbert -- The long run / Edith Wharton -- Olalla / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The box-office girl / Arnold Bennett -- A d… OL24157132W
The Realm of Fiction - 61 Short Stories The Realm of Fiction - 61 Short Stories Mark Twain,Антон Павлович Чехов,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Arnold Bennett,James Joyce,Shirley Jackson,James B. Hall A living relic / Ivan Turgenev ; translated by Constance Garnett -- A Christmas tree and a wedding / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by P.H. Porosky -- The story of Yemilyan and the empty drum / Leo… OL4092122W