List of works by Arnold Bennett
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The English novelist, journalist and playwright Arnold Bennett wrote prolifically between 1898 and his death in 1931. This is a list of his published books and adaptations of his works for stage and screen.
Fiction
Novels
Title | Subtitle | Date (UK) | Date (US) | Notes | Public domain audiobook |
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A Man from the North | 1898 | 1898 | |||
Anna of the Five Towns | A novel | 1902 | 1903 | [1] | |
The Grand Babylon Hotel | A fantasia on modern themes | 1902 | 1902 | First published serially from February 1901. Published in US as Racksole and Daughter |
[2] |
The Gates of Wrath | A melodrama | 1903 | –– | First published serially from October 1899 | |
Leonora | 1903 | 1910 | [3] | ||
A Great Man | A frolic | 1904 | 1910 | [4] | |
Teresa of Watling Street | A fantasia on modern themes | 1904 | –– | ||
Sacred and Profane Love | A novel in three episodes | 1905 | 1911 | Revised edition published in US as The Book of Carlotta | |
Hugo | A fantasia on modern themes | 1906 | 1906 | First published serially from May 1905 | |
Whom God Hath Joined | 1906 | 1911 | |||
The Sinews of War | A romance of London and the sea | 1906 | 1906 | Written in collaboration with Eden Phillpotts. First published serially from March 1906. Published in US as Doubloons |
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The Ghost | A fantasia on modern themes | 1907 | 1907 | ||
The City of Pleasure | A fantasia on modern themes | 1907 | 1915 | First published serially from January 1906 | |
The Statue | 1908 | 1908 | With Philpotts | ||
Buried Alive | A tale of these days | 1908 | 1910 | [5] | |
The Old Wives' Tale | A novel | 1908 | 1911 | [6] | |
The Glimpse | An adventure of the soul | 1909 | 1909 | ||
Helen with a High Hand | An idyllic diversion | 1910 | 1910 | First published serially from June 1909 as The Miser's Niece | [7] |
Clayhanger | 1910 | [8] | |||
The Card | A story of adventure in the Five Towns | 1911 | 1911 | First published serially from February 1910 as Denry the Audacious and published in the US under that title |
[9] |
Hilda Lessways | 1911 | 1911 | Second volume of Clayhanger trilogy | [10] | |
The Regent | A Five Towns story of adventure in London | 1913 | Sequel to The Card. First published serially from November 1912 (UK) and December 1912 (US). Published in the US as The Old Adam |
[11] | |
The Price of Love | A tale | 1914 | 1914 | First published serially from December 1913 | [12] |
These Twain | 1916 | 1915 | Third volume of Clayhanger trilogy. First published serially from September 1915 |
[13] | |
The Lion's Share | 1916 | 1916 | First published serially from October 1915 | [14] | |
The Pretty Lady | A novel | 1918 | 1918 | [15] | |
The Roll-Call | 1918 | 1918 | Sequel to the Clayhanger trilogy | [16] | |
Mr Prohack | 1922 | 1922 | First published serially from July 1921 | [17] | |
Lilian | 1922 | 1922 | First published serially from July 1922 | [18] | |
Riceyman Steps | A novel | 1923 | 1923 | [19] | |
Lord Raingo | 1926 | 1926 | First published serially from September 1926 | ||
The Vanguard | A fantasia | 1928 | 1927 | Published in UK as The Strange Vanguard | |
Accident | 1929 | 1928 | First published serially as Train de luxe from July 1928 | ||
Imperial Palace | 1930 | 1930 | |||
Dream of Destiny | 1932 | 1932 | Unfinished novel |
Sources: New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and Arnold Bennett by Margaret Drabble.[1]
Short stories
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Stage and screen
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Non-fiction
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Journals
- Volumes 1 and 2 (1896–1921), edited by Newman Flower, 1932
- Volume (1921–1928), edited by Flower, 1933
- Journal for 1929, edited by Bennett, 1930
- Selections from the complete journals, edited and selected by Frank Swinnerton, 1954 (revised edition, with additions, 1971)
- Florentine Journal, 1910 with illustrations by Bennett, 1967
Letters
- The Letters of Arnold Bennett edited by James Hepburn, four volumes, 1966–1986
Sources: Arnold Bennett by Frank Swinnerton; Arnold Bennett by Margaret Drabble.[2]
Adaptations by others
Cinema
- The Grand Babylon Hotel (1916)
- Milestones (1916)
- Milestones (1920)
- The Great Adventure (1921)
- The Old Wives' Tale (1921)
- The Card (1922)
- His Double Life (1933)
- Holy Matrimony (1943)
- Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
- The Card (1952)
Television
- The Great Adventure: BBC 1939, with D. A. Clarke-Smith, Marda Vanne and Felix Aylmer
- The Great Adventure: BBC 1947, with Harold Scott, Iris Baker and Richard Goolden
- The Title: BBC 1950, with Jill Esmond and Raymond Huntley
- Milestones: BBC 1950, with Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray
- The Great Adventure: BBC 1958, with Margaret Lockwood and Alec Clunes
- Hilda Lessways: BBC 1959 – six-part dramatisation of Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways, with Judi Dench
- What the Public Wants: BBC 1959, with Patrick Wymark, Dulcie Gray and Hugh Burden
- The Old Wives' Tale: BBC 1964 – five-part dramatisation, with Frances Cuka and Lana Morris
- Lord Raingo: BBC 1966 – four-part dramatisation, with Kenneth More
- Imperial Palace: BBC 1969 – four-part dramatisation, with Roy Dotrice and Cyril Luckham
- Whom God Hath Joined: BBC 1970, with Brian Blessed
- The Price of Love: BBC 1970, with Stephan Chase
- Clayhanger ATV 1976 – 26-part adaptation by Douglas Livingstone of Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways and These Twain, with Peter McEnery, Denis Quilley, Janet Suzman and Harry Andrews
- Anna of the Five Towns: BBC 1985 – four-part dramatisation by John Harvey, with Lynsey Beauchamp, Emrys James, Peter Davison, Anton Lesser and Anna Cropper
- Sophia and Constance: BBC 1988 – six-part dramatisation of The Old Wives' Tale by John Harvey, with Lynsey Beauchamp, Katy Behean and Patricia Routledge
Sources: BBC Genome and British Film Institute.[3][4]
Stage
- Clayhanger: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman and Peter Terson, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, November 1967
- Anna of the Five Towns: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, August 1969
- The Old Wives’ Tale: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, August 1971
- The Card: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, August 1973 and New Vic Theatre, October 1991. Also adapted by Deborah McAndrew for Claybody Theatre Company, Stoke-on-Trent, 2022
- Riceyman Steps: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, September 1982
- Buried Alive: adapted by Joyce Holliday (formerly Cheeseman), New Vic, March 1988
- The Pretty Lady: adapted by Joyce Holliday, New Vic, September 1990
Source: Victoria Theatre Collection, Special Collections, Thompson Library, Staffordshire University[5]
References
- ^ Watson and Willison, columns 429–431; and Drabble, pp. 375–378
- ^ Swinnerton, pp. 25–32; and Drabble, pp. 375–378
- ^ "Arnold Bennett" BBC Genome. Retrieved 3 June 2020
- ^ "Arnold Bennett", British Film Institute. Retrieved 3 June 2020
- ^ "Library: Special Collections, Staffordshire University: The Victoria Theatre Collection".
Sources
- Drabble, Margaret (1974). Arnold Bennett. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-76733-6.
- Swinnerton, Frank (1950). Arnold Bennett. London and New York: Longman. OCLC 1148037250.
- Watson, George; Ian R. Willison (1972). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08535-9.