Arnold Bennett: A Man from the North
A Man from the North
Buch
- Bibliotech Press, 07/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9798888308288
- Bestellnummer: 11923240
- Umfang: 138 Seiten
- Gewicht: 236 g
- Maße: 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke: 8 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.7.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Arnold Bennett's debut novel, A Man from the North, completed in 1896, was published two years later, by John Lane, whose reader, John Buchan, recommended it for publication. It elicited a letter of praise from Joseph Conrad and was well and widely reviewed, but Bennett's profits from the sale of the book were less than the cost of having it typed. ...(wikipedia. org)Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films.
Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley was one of the Six Towns that were joined together at the beginning of the 20th century as Stoke-on-Trent and are depicted as "the Five Towns" in some of Bennett's novels. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the family moved to a larger house between Hanley and Burslem. Bennett was educated in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
In 1889 Bennett won a literary competition run by the magazine Tit-Bits and was encouraged to take up journalism full-time. In 1894 he became assistant editor of the magazine Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial that was bought by the syndicate for 75 pounds (equivalent to £10, 000 in 2016). He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over four years later his novel A Man from the North was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine.
In 1900 Bennett gave up the editorship of Woman and dedicated himself to writing full-time. However, he continued to write for newspapers and magazines while finding success in his career as a novelist. In 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the London newspaper the Evening Standard.
One of Bennett's most popular non-fiction works was the self-help book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. His diaries have yet to be published in full, but extracts from them have often been quoted in the British press.
Bennett's output was prodigious and, by his own admission, was based on maximising his income. As Bennett put it:
Am I to sit still and see other fellows pocketing two guineas apiece for stories which I can do better myself? Not me. If anyone imagines my sole aim is art for art's sake, they are cruelly deceived. (wikipedia. org)
Biografie
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) wuchs in einfachen Verhältnissen im nordenglischen Staffordshire auf. Nach einigen Jahren in der Anwaltskanzlei seines Vaters arbeitete er als leitender Redakteur einer Frauenzeitschrift, bevor er sich ab 1900 völlig der Literatur widmete. Eine Pressereise in die Vereinigten Staaten geriet zum Triumphzug und bescherte ihm endgültig literarischen Weltruhm, den Bennett mit über hundert Büchern für viele Jahre festigte. Arnold Bennett
A Man from the North
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