Arnold Bennett

Over There - War Scenes on the Western Front (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This vintage book contains Arnold Bennett's 1915 account of life on the French and Belgian fronts during the First World War. It is his personal account of a visit to several portions of the French and Belgian fronts during the war, wherein he describes the destruction and conditions of the troops. Bennett has the ability to describe the most horrible scenes in language that is truly poetic, and does so with an authenticity missing from much of the propaganda of the time. A fascinating read, this book is highly recommended for those with an interest in the First World War, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Bennett's work. Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 -1931) was a popular English writer. He became famous as an author, but also worked as a journalist, propagandist, and film producer. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 121
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473374881
• Artikelnr.: 43088525

Autorenporträt

Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 - 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. 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.