Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women de Arnold Bennett

Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women

Arnold Bennett

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2007

This antiquarian volume contains an essay by Arnold Bennett on the subject of mental efficiency. This text is typical of the numerous self-improvement essays and books that Bennett wrote alongside his famous fiction work, and it is a text that, although old, still contains much that will amuse and edify the modern reader. A must-have for fans and collectors of Bennett's work, this book would make for a worthy addition to any collection. The chapters of this book include: 'Mental Efficiency', 'The Appeal', 'The Replies', 'The Cure', 'Mental Calisthenics', 'Expressing One's Individuality', 'Breaking with the Past', 'Settling Down in Life', 'Marriage', 'Books', 'Success', 'The Petty Artificialities', 'The Secret of Content', etcetera. Bennett (1867-1931) was a British novelist famous for writing such books as 'The Grand Babylon Hotel' (1902), 'The Grim Smile of the Five Towns' (1907), and 'Hilda Lessways' (1911). We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new biography of the author.

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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.