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  • The Ghost

    A strange presence, an unsettling mystery, and a story that blurs the boundary between the ordinary and the supernatural. Arnold Bennett's The Ghost explores the eerie possibilities that emerge when familiar surroundings begin to feel anything but ordinary. With its atmospheric storytelling and mysterious elements, the work creates a sense of uncertainty that keeps readers wondering what lies ... Read more

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  • These Twain

    The Third Book of the Clayhanger Family

    Edwin Clayhanger and Hilda are married at last, and the novel is about the years after: the house, the stepson, the money, and two people who cannot stop being who they were. Bennett finished the Clayhanger trilogy in 1916, and this is the volume where the Five Towns realism turns entirely inward. Nothing dramatic happens and the marriage is completely convincing. ... Read more

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  • Hilda Lessways

    Clayhanger's Story from Her Side

    The woman Edwin Clayhanger loved and lost tells her side: a shorthand clerk in the Potteries, a boarding house in Brighton, a marriage that turns out to be no marriage at all. Arnold Bennett wrote the second Clayhanger book to run alongside the first in time rather than after it, so the same days are lived twice from opposite ends. He knew the Five Towns because he was born in them. ... Read more

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  • The Old Wives' Tale

    Two Sisters from the Potteries

    Two sisters in a Staffordshire draper's shop: one stays her whole life, one runs off to Paris and lives through the siege. Bennett got the idea watching an old woman in a Paris restaurant and set out to write the finest novel in English; a good many readers think he managed it. ... Read more

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  • The Ghost

    This is a well-written ghost story, filled with suspenseful moments. It’s also a mostly positive portrayal of performers and theater folk, with a damseled young man, who among other things, has to demonstrate that he’s open to his beloved continuing to perform after their marriage, assuming that he survives that long. ... Read more

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  • The Ghost

    Not every ghost story begins with a haunting—sometimes it begins with a mystery no one can explain. When unexpected events disturb the ordinary course of life, the boundary between the familiar and the mysterious begins to disappear. In The Ghost, Arnold Bennett creates an intriguing narrative that blends atmosphere, uncertainty, human emotion, and the unsettling possibility of the supernatural. ... Read more

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  • 30 Occult and Supernatural Masterpieces

    Thirty Tales of Ghosts, Curses, and the Uncanny

    From Washington Irving's early American hauntings to Virginia Woolf's modernist unease, this sweeping collection gathers thirty tales of ghosts, curses, and things that should not be. Mary Shelley's gothic imagination, Charles Dickens's haunted houses, M. R. James's antiquarian terrors, and Henry James's psychological dread sit alongside Oscar Wilde's wit and H. G. Wells's speculative chills, ... Read more

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  • 30 Occult and Supernatural masterpieces in one book

    Enter a world where ghosts walk, ancient forces awaken, and the impossible becomes terrifyingly real. 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces in One Book brings together a collection of classic stories exploring the darkest corners of the supernatural imagination. Inside, readers encounter ghostly apparitions, haunted houses, mysterious rituals, occult practices, strange creatures, supernatural ... Read more

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  • The Old Wives' Tale

    The Old Wives' Tale, considered to be one of Bennett's finest works, begins in the 1860s, in the industrial "Five Towns" of the English Midlands, where he set many of his partially autobiographical stories.The novel follows the prosperous Baines family, who live above the successful clothing shop they own in the town of Bursley (based on Burslem, in Staffordshire). Even when the two Baines ... Read more

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  • The Grand Babylon Hôtel

    Series series Mystery & Crime
    An American millionaire tries to buy a steak and a bottle of beer in London's grandest hotel, is refused, and buys the hotel instead — after which the staff begin to disappear. Bennett wrote it as a serial in the year the century turned, for money, at speed, and produced the ancestor of every glamorous hotel thriller since. ... Read more

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  • The Old Wives' Tale

    The Old Wives' Tale, considered to be one of Bennett's finest works, begins in the 1860s, in the industrial "Five Towns" of the English Midlands, where he set many of his partially autobiographical stories.The novel follows the prosperous Baines family, who live above the successful clothing shop they own in the town of Bursley (based on Burslem, in Staffordshire). Even when the two Baines ... Read more

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  • 30 Occult and Supernatural masterpieces in one book

    Enter a world of mystery, haunted places, ancient legends, and supernatural suspense in this extraordinary collection of classic tales. Discover "30 Occult and Supernatural Masterpieces in One Book," a captivating anthology that brings together thirty timeless works of Gothic fiction, supernatural horror, occult mysteries, and eerie storytelling. Featuring some of the most influential voices in ... Read more

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