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Helen with the High Hand an Idyllic Diversion

Helen with the High Hand an Idyllic Diversion( )
Author: Bennett, Arnold
ISBN:978-0-615-86316-0
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:Loki's Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $7.99
Book Description:

Arnold Bennett was an English writer best known as a novelist, but he started working in journalism when he won a literary competition hosted by Tit-Bits magazine. Moving up in the world of journalism Bennett became the assistant editor and in short order the editor of the magazine. After leaving the magazine and giving up his editor post he committed himself to writing full time while still devoting time to journalism. During the war he became the Director of Propaganda for France as...
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Pages:138
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.32 Inches
Book Weight:0.58 Pounds
Author Biography
Bennett, Arnold (Author)
Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England.

He began his working career as a law clerk and later he left the legal field and became an editor for the magazine Woman. His first novel was "A Man from the North." He wrote several novels set in Hanley, the town where he was born. These are known as the Five Town novels. Other titles include "The Babylon Hotel," "The Truth about an Author," and "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day." Bennett won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel "Riceyman Steps." "The Journal of Arnold Bennett" was published posthumously in three volumes. Bennett was also the author of "Hugo" which was made into a major motion picture in 2011 starring Jude law and Ben Kingsley, directed by Martin Scorsese.

During WWI, Bennett was Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. (At that time "propaganda" did not have the negative connotations it would have later in the twentieth century.) This appointment was based on the recommendation of Lord Beaverbrook, who also recommended him as Deputy Minister of that department at the end of the war. Bennett refused a knighthood in 1918. He died in London of typhoid fever on March 27, 1931.

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