List of works by Arnold Bennett

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
A Man from the North		1898	1898
Anna of the Five Towns	A novel	1902	1903
The Grand Babylon Hotel	A fantasia on modern themes	1902	1902	First published serially from February 1901. Published in US as Racksole and Daughter
The Gates of Wrath	A melodrama	1903	––	First published serially from October 1899
Leonora		1903	1910
A Great Man	A frolic	1904	1910
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 Philpotts. First published serially from March 1906. Published in US as Doubloons
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 three days	1908	1910
The Old Wives' Tale	A novel	1908	1911
The Glimpse	An adventure of the soul	1909	1909
Helen, with the High Hand	An idyllic diversion	1910	1910	First published serially from June 1909 as The Miser's Niece
Clayhanger		1910
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
Hilda Lessways		1911	1911	Second volume of Clayhanger trilogy
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
The Price of Love	A tale	1914	1914	First published serially from December 1913
These Twain		1916	1915	Third volume of Clayhanger trilogy. First published serially from September 1915
The Lion's Share		1916	1916	First published serially from October 1915
The Pretty Lady	A novel	1918	1918
The Roll-Call		1918	1918	Sequel to the Clayhanger trilogy
Mr Prohack		1922	1922	First published serially from July 1921
Lilian		1922	1922	First published serially from July 1922
Riceyman Steps	A novel	1923	1923
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: The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and Arnold Bennett by Margaret Drabble.[1]

Short stories

The Loot of Cities: Being the Adventures of a Millionaire in Search of Joy 1905

The Loot of Cities; Mr Penfound's two Burglars; Midnight at the Grand Babylon; The Police Station; The Adventure of the Prima Donna; The Episode in Room 222; Saturday to Monday; A Dinner at the Louvre

Tales of the Five Towns 1905

At Home; His Worship the Goose Driver; The Elixir of Youth; Mary with the High Hand; The Dog; A Feud; Phantom; Tiddy-Fol-Lol; The Idiot; Abroad; Hungarian Rhapsody; The Sisters Quita; Nocturne at the Majestic; Clarice of the Autumn Concerts; A Letter Home (written in 1893)

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns 1907

The Lion's Share; The Baby's Bath; The Silent Brothers; The Nineteenth Hat; Vera's First Christmas Adventure; The Murder of the Mandarin; Vera’s Second Christmas Adventure; The Burglary; The News of the Engagement; Beginning the New Year; From one Generation to Another; The Death of Simon Fuge; In a New Bottle

The Matador of the Five Towns 1912

Tragedy: The Matador of the Five Towns; Mimi; The Supreme Illusion; The Letter and the Lie; The Glimpse; Frolic: Jock-at-a-Venture; The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick; Under the Clock; Three episodes of the life of Mr Cowlishaw, dentist; Catching the Train; The Widow at the Balcony; The Cat and Cupid; The Fortune Teller; The Long-lost Uncle; The Tight Hand; Why the Clock Stopped; Hot Potatoes; Half a Sovereign; The Blue Suit; The Tiger and the Baby; The Revolver; An Unfair Advantage

Elsie and the Child, and other stories 1924

Elsie and the Child; During Dinner; The Paper Cap; The Box-Office Girl; Mr Jack Hollins against Fate; Nine o'clock To-morrow; The Yacht; Outside and Inside; Last Love; The Mysterious Destruction of Mr Ipple; The Perfect Creature; The Fish; The Limits of Dominion

The Woman who Stole Everything, and other stories 1927

The Woman who Stole Everything; A Place in Venice; The Toreador; Middle-aged; The Umbrella; House to Let; Claribel; Time to think; One of their Quarrels

The Night Visitor and other stories 1931

The Night Visitor; The Cornet-Player; Murder; The Hat; Under the Hammer; The Wind; Honour; The First Night; The Seven Policemen; Myrtle at 6 a.m.; Strange Affair at an Hotel; The Second Night; The Understudy; The Peacock; Dream; Baccarat; The Mouse and the Cat

Stage and screen

Polite Farces for the Drawing Room (contains The Stepmother, A Good Woman and A Question of Sex) 1899
Cupid and Commonsense (dramatisation of The Old Wives' Tale) 1908
What the Public Wants 1909
The Honeymoon 1911
Milestones (with Edward Knoblock) 1912
The Great Adventure 1913
The Title 1918
Sacred and Profane Love (based on the 1903 novel) 1919
Judith 1922
The Love Match 1922

Body and Soul 1922
Don Juan de Maraña 1923
London Life (with Knoblock) 1924
The Bright Island 1924
The Only Way film scenario 1926
Mr Prohack 1927 (with Knoblock, based on the 1922 novel)
The Return Journey 1928
Piccadilly film screenplay 1929
Judith libretto for one-act opera, based on his 1922 play; music by Eugene Goossens 1929
Don Juan de Maraña libretto for four-act opera, based on his 1923 play, music by Goossens. Libretto completed in 1931; opera premiered (Covent Garden) 1937

Non-fiction

Journalism for Women 1898
Polite Forces for the Drawing Room 1900
Fame and Fiction (collected criticism) 1901
The Truth about an Author (autobiographical) 1903
How to Become an Author: A Practical Guide 1903
The Reasonable Life 1907
The Human Machine: A Pocket Philosophy 1909
Literary Taste: How to Form It 1909
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day 1910
The Feast of St Friend: A Christmas Book 1911 (published in the US and in later British editions as Friendship and Happiness)
Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women 1911
Those United States 1912 (published in the US as Your United States)
The Plain Man and His Wife 1913
Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People 1913
The Author's Craft 1914

From the Log of the Velsa (travel sketches, published in the US in 1914 and in Britain in 1920)
Liberty: A Statement of the British Case 1914
Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front 1915
Books and Persons: Selections from The New Age 1908–1911) 1917
Self and Self-Management 1918
Our Women: Chapters on Sex-Discord 1920
The Art of A. E. Rickards 1920
Things That Have Interested Me 1921
Things That Have Interested Me (second series) 1923
How to Make the Best of Life 1923
How to Live 1925; consisting of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Mental Efficiency, and Self and Self-Management
Things That Have Interested Me (third series) 1926
The Savour of Life: Essays in Gusto 1928
The Religious Interregnum 1929

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
Florentine Journal, 1910 with illustrations by Bennett, 1967

Letters

The Letters of Arnold Bennett edited by James Hepburn, three volumes, 1966–1970

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 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, with Linsey Beauchamp, Emrys James, Peter Davison, Anton Lesser and Anna Cropper
Sophia and Constance: BBC 1988 – six-part dramatisation of The Old Wives' Tale, with Patricia Routledge and Catherine Cusack

Sources: BBC Genome and British Film Institute.[3][4]

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

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.

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[1] Watson and Willison, columns 429–431; and Drabble, pp. 375–378

[2] Swinnerton, pp. 25–32; and Drabble, pp. 375–378

[3] "Arnold Bennett" BBC Genome. Retrieved 3 June 2020

[4] "Arnold Bennett", British Film Institute. Retrieved 3 June 2020