Avec Le Spectre, Terre de Brume propose, dans une traduction révisée, un des textes les plus originaux d'Arnold Benne", grand homme oublié des lettres edwardiennes. Roman théâtral louchant sur Le Fantôme de l'Opéra dont il transcende les codes -, conte fantastique, allégorie métaphysique, roman d'initiation... Le Spectre est tout cela. Aimée comme il se doit de plusieurs hommes (dont Carl Forster, le jeune narrateur du Spectre), la soprano Rosa Rosetta, étoile internationale de l'opéra, semble être surveillée par une présence spectrale d'une impitoyable et meurtrière jalousie. Maladie, morts subites, disparitions s'accumulent autour de la jeune femme, jusqu'au jour où l'ombre qui la suit affronte, en un terrifiant duel mental, l'homme qui lui est resté fidèle. Bennett jongle avec les conventions romanesques et les profondeurs tragiques; son roman surnaturel est aussi le portrait charmeur d'une société où l'apparence et le spectacle, déjà, sont rois. Le Spectre ne lésine jamais sur la noblesse des décors et des sentiments. Ses capitales européennes sont celles, élégantes, dorées et mystérieuses, d'une fin de siècle vivace autant que décadente. Le Spectre, pourtant, n'est pas qu'une fantaisie, et dresse le portrait presque unique en littérature d'un spectre conscient de sa " spectritude ", et de sa sidérale différence avec le monde des vivants. Il fallait peut-être un écrivain dit réaliste pour donner aussi paradoxalement chair à un fantôme...

Le Spectre

Nach Ansicht des Autors Arnold Bennnett besteht das Leben der meisten Angestellten darin, nur für ihren Lebensunterhalt zu arbeiten, aber er glaubt nicht, dass sie wirklich leben. Bennett geht dieses Problem an, indem er ihnen vorschlägt, wie sie zusätzliche Zeit gewinnen können um daraus das Beste zu machen und die gewonnene Zeit für ein wirkliches Leben zu nutzen.

Dieses Buch hat in den letzten Jahren aufgrund der Explosion des Phänomens der Selbstverbesserung an Attraktivität gewonnen, und in der heutigen Welt große Bedeutung. 

Der Humor des Autors, ebenso wie seine Scharfzüngigkeit und die teilweise sehr originellen Ansichten kommen besonders gut in diesem Werk zum Tragen. 

Lesen Sie dieses Buch und Sie werden Zeit für das wirkliche Leben und dazu reichlich Lebensfreude gewinnen.

Wie man seinen 24Std-Tag organisiert - und mehr Zeit gewinnt für das wirkliche Leben

La fille du magnat américain Theodore Racksole veut un steak et une bière, mais un palace d'un si haut standing que le Grand hôtel Babylon ne saurait s'abaisser à des mets aussi vulgaires. Qu'il cela ne tienne : Racksole rachète donc l'hôtel. Mais le milliardaire ne s'attendait pas à ce que la gestion hôtelière soit semée de tant d'embûches : la réceptionniste disparaît, le maître d'hôtel démissionne, un jeune diplomate est trouvé mort et son corps est subtilisé. Et que devient donc le prince Eugène, qui devait descendre au Grand hôtel Babylon et dont personne n'a de nouvelles ? Les énigmes s'accumulent et des machinations internationales semblent s'ourdir dans les corridors chics du palace.

Le Grand Hôtel Babylon

La fille du magnat américain Theodore Racksole veut un steak et une bière, mais un palace d'un si haut standing que le Grand Hôtel Babylon ne saurait s'abaisser à des mets aussi vulgaires. Qu'à cela ne tienne : Racksole rachète donc l'hôtel. Mais le milliardaire ne s'attendait pas à ce que la gestion hôtelière soit semée de tant d'embûches : la réceptionniste disparaît, le maître d'hôtel démissionne, un jeune diplomate est trouvé mort et son corps est subtilisé.Et que devient donc le prince Eugène, qui devait descendre au Grand Hôtel Babylon et dont personne n'a de nouvelles ? Les énigmes s'accumulent et des machinations internationales semblent s'ourdir dans les corridors chics du palace.

Le Grand hôtel Babylon

This   carefully crafted ebook: "These Twain (Unabridged)" is formatted   for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This book is the final volume in the Clayhanger trilogy, following   Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways. In many ways this is the most accomplished of the three novels.  
Enoch Arnold Bennett  (1867-1931) was a British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form an   important link between the English novel and the mainstream European   realism.

These Twain (Unabridged)

The old wives' tale

Der erfolgreiche Geschäftsmann Henry Edward Machin aus Nordengland sucht nach einer neuen Herausforderung. Mit seinen Unternehmungen hat er alles erreicht und beginnt, sich zu langweilen. Er bekommt die Chance, in London ein Theater zu bauen. Mit der Theaterbranche kennt er sich zwar wenig aus, aber das Abenteuer reizt ihn. Das Projekt bringt seine alte Energie und Motivation zurück. Der Umgang mit ehrgeizigen Schauspielern und die große öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit gefallen ihm. Doch das Neuland der Theaterwelt hält für ihn auch einige Überraschungen bereit.

»Theater« von Arnold Bennett erschien erstmals 1913 (engl.: »The Regent« ). Das Buch bietet einen unterhaltsamen Blick auf die Welt des Theaters, gesehen aus der bodenständigen Perspektive eines Investors.

Theater - Roman

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card   (3 Classics by Arnold Bennett)" is formatted for your eReader with a   functional and detailed table of contents. 
The hero of the novel Buried Alive, Mr Priam Farll, is a painter of considerable ability. He is, however,   extremely shy - so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the   doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man the valet...
The Old Wives Tale is a novel set in part in the Potteries district of   North Staffordshire, where Bennett grew up, and is generally considered his masterpiece.
The Card is a short comic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911. It   chronicles the rise of Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from a washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley (a fictitious town based on Burslem).
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist, novelist, and writer.   After working as a rent collector and solicitor's clerk, Bennett won a   writing contest which convinced him to become a journalist and an author.

Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card (3 Classics by Arnold Bennett)

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Hilda Lessways (Unabridged)" is formatted for your   eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The book is the second book of The Clayhanger Family series by Arnold   Bennett, which paralleled Edwin Clayhanger's story from the point of view of his eventual wife, Hilda. It tells the story of her coming of age, her   working experiences as a shorthand clerk and keeper of a lodging house in   London and Brighton, her relationship with George Cannon that ends in her   disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy, and finally her reconciliation   with Edwin Clayhanger.
Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is   best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism,   propaganda and film.
In his early life, Bennett was employed by his father but the working   relationship failed. Bennett found himself doing jobs such as rent-collecting   which were uncongenial. He also resented the low pay; it is no accident that   the theme of parental miserliness is important in his novels. In his spare   time he was able to do a little journalism, but his breakthrough as a writer   came after he had moved from the Potteries. His most famous works are the  The Clayhanger Family, (the complete   trilogy consisting of Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways, and These Twain) and The   Old Wives' Tale. These books draw on his experience of life in the Potteries,   as did most of his best work.
Content:
Book I. Her Start in Life
1. An Event in Mr. Skellorn's Life
2. The End of the Scene
3. Mr. Cannon
4. Domesticity Invaded
5. Mrs. Lessways' Shrewdness
6. Victor Hugo and Isaac Pitman
7. The Editorial Secretary
8. Janet Orgreave
9. In the Street
10. Miss Gailey in Declension
11. Disillusion
12. The Telegram
13. Hilda's World
14. To London
Book II. Her Recovery
1. Sin
2. The Little Room
3. Journey to Bleakridge
4. With the Orgreaves
5. Edwin Clayhanger
6. In the Garden
7. The Next Meeting
Book III. Her Burden
1. Hilda Indispensable
2. Sarah's Benefactor
3. At Brighton
4. The Sea
Book IV. Her Fall
1. The Going Concern
2. The Unknown Adventure
3. Florrie Again
Book V. Her Deliverance
1. Louisa Uncontrolled
2. Some Secret History
Book VI. Her Punishment
1. Evening at Bleakridge
2. A Rendezvous
3. At the Works
4. The Call from Brighton
5. Thursday Afternoon
6. Mischance

Hilda Lessways (Unabridged)

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Over There: War Scenes on the Western   Front" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
This book  was written by British   writer Arnold Bennett. He lived in France from 1903-1911, and was the first   established author to be invited to tour the front for propaganda purposes,   spending three weeks in France and Belgium in June 1915 and publishing this   account later in the year. He was appointed Director of Propaganda in the   Ministry of Information in 1918.
Enoch Arnold Bennett  (1867-1931) was   a British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form   an important link between the English novel and the mainstream of European   realism. He also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and   film.
Table of Content :
1. Chapter 1. The Zone Of Paris
2. Chapter 2. On The French Front
3. Chapter 3. Ruins
4. Chapter 4. At Grips
5. Chapter 5. The British Lines
6. Chapter 6. The Unique City

Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front

This carefully crafted ebook: "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (A Classic Guide to Self-Improvement)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The book, written by Arnold Bennett in 1910, is part of a larger work entitled How to Live. In this volume, he offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing) within the confines of 24 hours a day.
Content:
- The Daily Miracle
- The Desire to Exceed One's Programme
- Precautions Before Beginning
- The Cause of the Trouble
- Tennis and the Immortal Soul
- Remember Human Nature
- Controlling the Mind
- The Reflective Mood
- Interest in the Arts
- Nothing in Life is Humdrum
- Serious Reading
- Dangers to Avoid
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist, novelist, and writer. After working as a rent collector and solicitor's clerk, Bennett won a writing contest which convinced him to become a journalist and an author.

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (A Classic Guide to Self-Improvement)

"Yes, he's one of those men that don't know how to manage. Good situation. Regular income. Quite enough for luxuries as well as needs. Not really extravagant. And yet the fellow's always in difficulties. Somehow he gets nothing out of his money. Excellent flat-half empty! Always looks as if he'd had the brokers in. New suit-old hat! Magnificent necktie-baggy trousers! Asks you to dinner: cut glass-bad mutton, or Turkish coffee-cracked cup! He can't understand it. Explanation simply is that he fritters his income away. Wish I had the half of it! I'd show him-"

So we have most of us criticised, at one time or another, in our superior way.

We are nearly all chancellors of the exchequer: it is the pride of the moment. Newspapers are full of articles explaining how to live on such-and-such a sum, and these articles provoke a correspondence whose violence proves the interest they excite. Recently, in a daily organ, a battle raged round the question whether a woman can exist nicely in the country on L85 a year. I have seen an essay, "How to live on eight shillings a week." But I have never seen an essay, "How to live on twenty-four hours a day." Yet it has been said that time is money. That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time you can obtain money-usually. But though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has.

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop owner in the Clerkenwell area of London. (from wikipedia.org)

Riceyman Steps

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness, long disguised as procrastination, can become a fatal illness. Bennett's bleak story is saved, however, by the Earlforwards' maid Elsie: buxom, warm, ignorant, and sublime in her spontaneous greed for life. Riceyman Steps is a modernist masterpiece; a profound psychological and symbolic exploration of the forces of love and death.

L'escalier de Riceyman

Arnold Bennett, né le 27 mai 1867 à Hanley (Staffordshire, Angleterre) et mort le 27 mars 1931 à Londres (Angleterre), est un écrivain et journaliste britannique.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bennett

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