Bennett, Arnold
(Hanley, Staffordshire 1867-1931 London) : Schriftsteller, Dramatiker
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Bennett, Arnold. Works. 1902 Bennett, Arnold. Anna of the five towns : a novel. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1902). Chap. 5. Then the parents died in middle age: one daughter married in the North, another in the South; a third went to China as a missionary and died of fever; the eldest son died; the second had vanished into Canada and was reported a scapegrace; the third was a sea-captain... Chap. 8. The large whitewashed place was occupied by ungainly machines and receptacles through which the four sorts of clay used in the common 'body'--ball clay, China clay, flint clay and stone clay—were compelled to pass before they became a white putty-like mixture meet for shaping by human hands… Chap. 12. At one end of the table, which glittered with silver, glass, and Longshaw china, was a fowl which had been boiled for four hours; at the other, a hot pork-pie, islanded in liquor, which might have satisfied a regiment... 1904 Bennett, Arnold. A great man, a frolic. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1904). Chap. 15 There was to be an important tea-meeting at the Munster Park Chapel on the next Saturday afternoon but one, and tea was to be on the tables at six o'clock. The gathering had some connection with an attempt on the part of the Wesleyan Connexion to destroy the vogue of Confucius in China… Chap. 25 I've broken the bank at Monte Carlo!' If he had succeeded to the imperial throne of China, he would have felt much the same as he felt then… 1905 Bennett, Arnold. Tales of the five towns. (London : Chatto and Windus, 1905). Mary with the high hand. Mark was at present the manager of a small china manufactory at Longshaw, the farthest of the Five Towns in Staffordshire, and five miles from Bursley… A letter home. Well, five of these gay little dolls wanted to go to Hong Kong, and they arranged with the Chinese sailors to stow away; I believe their friends paid those cold-blooded fiends something to pass them down food on the voyage, and give them an airing at nights… The Chinese had never troubled their heads about them at all, although they must have known it meant death… 1906 Bennett, Arnold. Hugo : a fantasia on modern themes. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1906). Chap. 4. Camilla. He seized the weapon, and impetuously aimed at a heavy Chinese gong across the room, and pulled the trigger several times. The revolver spoke noisily, and the gong sounded and swung… 1907 Bennett, Arnold. The ghost : a modern fantasy. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1907). Occasionally a smooth-gliding carriage, or a bicyclist flitting by with a Chinese lantern at the head of his machine--that was all… 1907 Bennett, Arnold. The grim smile of the five towns. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1907). The murder of the mandarin I 'Listen here,' proceeded Woodruff, who read variously and enjoyed philosophical speculation. 'Supposing that by just taking thought, by just wishing it, an Englishman could kill a mandarin in China and make himself rich for life, without anybody knowing anything about it! How many mandarins do you suppose there would be left in China at the end of a week!'… 'But an Englishman COULDN'T kill a mandarin in China by just wishing it,' said Vera, looking up… II And she returned to mandarins. She got herself into a very morbid and two-o'clock-in-the-morning state of mind. Suppose it was a dodge that DID work. (Of course, she was extremely superstitious; we all are.) She began to reflect seriously upon China. She remembered having heard that Chinese mandarins were very corrupt; that they ground the faces of the poor, and put innocent victims to the torture; in short, that they were sinful and horrid persons, scoundrels unfit for mercy. Then she pondered upon the remotest parts of China, regions where Europeans never could penetrate. No doubt there was some unimportant mandarin, somewhere in these regions, to whose district his death would be a decided blessing, to kill whom would indeed be an act of humanity. Probably a mandarin without wife or family; a bachelor mandarin whom no relative would regret; or, in the alternative, a mandarin with many wives, whose disgusting polygamy merited severe punishment! An old mandarin already pretty nearly dead; or, in the alternative, a young one just commencing a career of infamy!... She purchased the Signal with well-feigned calm, opened it and read: 'Stop-press news. Pekin. Li Hung Chang, the celebrated Chinese statesman, died at two o'clock this morning.--Reuter.'… III The death of Li Hung Chang was heavy on her soul… To receive a paltry sovereign for murdering the greatest statesman of the Eastern hemisphere was simply grotesque. Moreover, she had most distinctly not wanted to deprive China of a distinguished man. She had expressly stipulated for an inferior and insignificant mandarin, one that could be spared and that was unknown to Reuter. She supposed she ought to have looked up China at the Wedgwood Institution and selected a definite mandarin with a definite place of residence. But could she be expected to go about a murder deliberately like that?... 1908 Bennett, Arnold. Buried alive : a tale of thesedays. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1908). Chap. 5. There were theatre, music-hall, assembly-rooms,concert hall, market, brewery, library, and an afternoon tea shop exactly like Regent Street (not that Mrs. Challice cared for their alleged China tea); also churches and chapels; and Barnes Common if you walked one way, and Wimbledon Common if you walked another… Thus justified of the clock, in they went, and sat down in the same seats which they had occupied at the commencement of the adventure in the main lounge. Priam discovered a bell-push, and commanded China tea and muffins… And in the pause, while he was preparing to be gay, attractive, and in fact his true self, she, calmly stirring China tea, shot a bolt which made him see stars… She sipped China tea, holding each finger wide apart from the others… Chap. 8. Silver ornamented the spread, and Alice's two tea-pots (for she would never allow even Chinese tea to remain on the leaves for more than five minutes) and Alice's water-jug with the patent balanced lid, occupied a tray off the cloth… Alice went to the sideboard where she kept her best china, and took out three extra cups and saucers… 1908 Bennett, Arnold. The old wives' tale : a novel. (London : Chapman & Hall, 1908). Chap. 1. It was of a piece with the deep green "flock" wall paper, and the tea-urn, and the rocking-chairs with their antimacassars, and the harmonium in rosewood with a Chinese paper-mache tea-caddy on the top of it; even with the carpet, certainly the most curious parlour carpet that ever was, being made of lengths of the stair-carpet sewn together side by side… Chap. 6. Ah, the monstrous Chinese cruelty of youth!... He thought of women as the Occidental thinks of the Chinese, as a race apart, mysterious but capable of being infallibly comprehended by the application of a few leading principles of psychology… 1910 Bennett, Arnold. Clayhanger. (London : Methuen, 1910). Chap. 4. With its exact perpendiculars and horizontals, its geometric regularities, and its Chinese preciseness of fitting, a house had always seemed to him--again in the vagueness of his mind—as something superhuman… He crossed the damp grass, and felt the breeze and the sun. The sky was a moving medley of Chinese white and Prussian blue, that harmonised admirably with the Indian red architecture which framed it on all sides… Chap. 5. Mr Enoch Peake was as mysterious to Edwin as, say, a Chinese mandarin!... 1910 Bennett, Arnold. Helen with the high hand. (London : Chapman & Hall, 1910). Chap. 7. The new cook. He had an extravagant taste in tea. He fancied China tea; and he fancied China tea that cost five shillings a pound. He was the last person to leave China tea at five shillings a pound to the economic prudence of a Mrs. Butt. Every day Mrs. Butt brought to him the teapot (warmed) and a teaspoon, and he unlocked the tea-caddy, dispensed the right quantity of tea, and relocked the tea-caddy… Chap. 8. Omelette. "What!" she cried again. "You think yourself a great authority on China tea, and yet you don't know that milk ought to be poured in first! Why, it makes quite a different taste!"… How in the name of Confucius did she know that he thought himself a great authority on China tea?... There could be no doubt; it was his special China tea. It had a peculiar flavour (owing, perhaps, to the precedence given to milk), but it was incontestably his guarded and locked tea. How had she got it? "Where didst find this tea, lass?" he asked. "In the little corner cupboard in the scullery," she said. "I'd no idea that people drank such good China tea in Bursley." "Ah!" he observed, concealing his concern under a mask of irony, "China tea was drunk i' Bursley afore your time."… And he explained to Helen all his elaborate precautions for the preservation of his China tea… She was cold, prim, cut off like China from human intercourse by a wall… In the midst of the lawn was Mrs. Prockter's famous weeping willow, on whose branches Chinese lanterns had been hung by a reluctant gardener, who held to the proper gardener's axiom that lawns are made to be seen and not hurt. The moon aided these lanterns to the best of her power… 1910 Bennett, Arnold. How to live on 24 hours a day. (New York, N.Y. : George H. Doran, 1910). Chap. 4. And this inner day, a Chinese box in a larger Chinese box, must begin at 6 p.m. and end at 10 a.m. … 1911 Bennett, Arnold. The card : a story of adventure in the five towns. (London : Methuen, 1911). Chap. 2. She [Countess of Chell] was young and pretty. She had travelled in China and written a book about China… Chap. 5. In September, when the moon was red and full, and the sea glassy, he announced a series of nocturnal "Rocket Fetes." The lifeboat, hung with Chinese lanterns, put out in the evening (charge five shillings) and, followed by half the harbour's fleet of rowing-boats and cutters, proceeded to the neighbourhood of the strip of beach, where a rocket apparatus had been installed by the help of the Lifeboat Secretary… The Countess had a passion for tea."They have splendid China tea," said Denry… And she just said: "I like this balustrade knob being of black china."… Chap. 6. When Denry entered the dining-room of the Beau-Site, which had been cleared for the ball, his costume drew attention not so much by its splendour or ingenuity as by its peculiarity. He wore a short Chinese-shaped jacket, which his wife had made out of blue linen, and a flat Chinese hat to match, which they had constructed together on a basis of cardboard. But his thighs were enclosed in a pair of absurdly ample riding-breeches of an impressive check and cut to a comic exaggeration of the English pattern. He had bought the cloth for these at the tailor's in Montreux. Below them were very tight leggings, also English. In reply to a question as to what or whom he supposed himself to represent, he replied:"A Captain of Chinese cavalry, of course." Nevertheless, the dance was a remarkable success, and little by little even the sternest adherents of the absent Captain Deverax deigned to be amused by Denry's Chinese gestures… 1912 Bennett, Arnold. The matador oft he five towns and other stories. (London : Methuen, 1912). Mimi Vaillac, a widower with two young children, Mimi and Jean, was a Frenchman, and a great authority on the decoration of egg-shell china, who had settled in the Five Towns as expert partner in one of the classic china firms at Longshaw… The glimpse. It may be imagined that I resented death at so early an age, and being cut off in my career, and prevented from getting the full benefit of the new china-firing oven that I had patented… Externally I am the successful earthenware manufacturer, happily married, getting rich on a china-firing oven, employing a couple of hundred workmen, etcetera, who was once given up for dead. But I am more than that. I have seen God… Under the clock. And then the public balls, with those delicious tables in corners, lighted by Chinese lanterns, where you sat down and drew strange liquids up straws… The widow of the balcony. It stopped the reckless waltzing of the piano in the drawing-room; it stopped the cackle incident to cork-pool in the billiard-room; it even stopped a good deal of the whispering under the Chinese lanterns beneath the stairs and in the alcove at the top of the stairs… The tight hand. Moreover, she was forced to employ a charwoman--a charwoman who had made a fine art of breaking china, of losing silver teaspoons down sinks, and of going home of a night with vast pockets full of things that belonged to her by only nine-tenths of the law… Hot potatoes. Men who had never heard of Wagner, men who could not have told the difference between a sonata and a sonnet to save their souls, men who spent all their lives in manufacturing tea-cups or china door-knobs, were invited to guarantee five pounds a-piece against possible loss on the festival; and they bravely and blindly did so… The blue suit. We installed ourselves in one of the alcoves, with supplies of China tea and multitudinous cakes, and grew piquantly intimate, and then she explained her visit to my tailor's… 1912 Bennett, Arnold. The matador oft he five towns and other stories. (London : Methuen, 1912). Vaillac, a widower with two young children, Mimi and Jean, was a Frenchman, and a great authority on the decoration of egg-shell china, who had settled in the Five Towns as expert partner in one of the classic china firms at Longshaw… 1912 Bennett, Arnold. Your United States : impressions of a first vist. (New York, N.Y. ; London : Harper & Bros., 1912). II Streets Much of what I have said of the streets of New York applies, in my superficial opinion, for instance, to the streets of Chicago. It is well known that to the Chinaman all Westerners look alike. No tourist on his first visit to a country so astonishing as the United States is very different from a Chinaman; the tourist should reconcile himself to that deep truth. It is desolating to think that a second visit will reveal to me the blindness, the distortions, and the wrong-headedness of my first. But even as a Chinaman I did notice subtle differences between New York and Chicago… IV Some organizations. I saw a packer deal with a collected order, and in this order were a number of tiny cookery utensils, a four-cent curling-iron, a brush, and two incredibly ugly pink china mugs, inscribed in cheap gilt respectively with the words "Father" and "Mother."… VII Edication and art. I do believe that I even liked the singular sight of a Chinaman tabulating from the world's press, in the modern-history laboratory, a history of the world day by day… VIII Citizens. We even saw Chinatown, and the wagonettes of tourists stationary in its streets. I had suspected that Chinatown was largely a show for tourists. When I asked how it existed, I was told that the two thousand Chinese of Chinatown lived on the ten thousand Chinese who came into it from all quarters on Sundays, and I understood. As a show it lacked convincingness—except the delicatessen-shop, whose sights and odors silenced criticism. It had the further disadvantage, by reason of its tawdry appeals of color and light, of making one feel like a tourist. Above a certain level of culture, no man who is a tourist has the intellectual honesty to admit to himself that he is a tourist. Such honesty is found only on the lower levels. The detective saved our pride from time to time by introducing us to sights which the despicable ordinary tourists cannot see. It was a proud moment for us when we assisted at a conspiratorial interview between our detective and the "captain of the precincts." And it was a proud moment when in an inconceivable retreat we were permitted to talk with an aged Chinese actor and view his collection of flowery hats. It was a still prouder (and also a subtly humiliating) moment when we were led through courtyards and beheld in their cloistral aloofness the American legitimate wives of wealthy China-men, sitting gorgeous, with the quiescence of odalisques, in gorgeous uncurtained interiors. I was glad when one of the ladies defied the detective by abruptly swishing down her blind… 1913 Bennett, Arnold. The great adventure : a play of fancy in 4 acts. (London : Methuen, 1913). [Erstaufführung Kingsway Theatre, London 1913]. HONORIA. There's one question I should so like to ask you, Mr. Shawn. In watercolours did Mr. Carve use Chinese white freely or did he stick to transparent colour, like the old English school? I wonder if you understand me? CARVE. (Interested.) He used Chinese white like anything. HONORIA. Oh! I'm so glad. You remember that charming water-colour of the Venetian gondolier in the Luxembourg. We had a great argument after we got home last Easter as to whether the oar was put in with Chinese white--or just 'left out,' you know! CARVE. Chinese white, of course. My notion is that it doesn't matter a fig how you get effects so long as you do get them. HONORIA. I'm so glad. I'm so glad. I knew I was right about Chinese white. Oh, Anselm, do let him be buried in the Abbey! Do let me suggest to uncle---- LOOE. My dear girl, ask your conscience. Enthusiasm for art I can comprehend; I can even sympathize with it. But if this grave national question is to be decided by considerations of Chinese white----… 1913 Bennett, Arnold. The plain man and his wife. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1913). II The taste for pleasure. Can it not be got by simply sitting down in a chair and yielding to a mood? And yet this knowledge is just about as difficult to acquire as a knowledge of Chinese… 1913 Bennett, Arnold. The regent : a five towns story of adventure in London. (London : Methuen, 1913). Chap. 5. He had not been so flattered since the Countess of Chell had permitted him to offer her China tea, meringues, and Berlin pancakes at the Sub Rosa tea-rooms in Hanbridge--and that was a very long time ago… Chap. 6. It's worse than carrying about a china vase all the time on a slippery floor!... Chap. 7. Sir John, with the assistance of a young Chinaman and a fox-terrier, who flitted around him, was indeed eating and drinking… The Chinaman's eyes were closed while his face still grinned. Snip was asleep on the parquet… 1914 Bennett, Arnold. The price of love. (London : Methuen, 1914). Chap. 1. He sat down in a chair by the table, drew off his loose black gloves, and after letting them hover irresolutely over the encumbered table deposited them for safety in the china slop-basin... 1916 Bennett, Arnold. The lion's share. (London : Cassell, 1916). Chap. 1. They heard a servant moving about at the foot of the stairs, and a capped head could be seen through the interstices of the white Chinese balustrade… "Yes, I know," said Audrey. "He ought to keep me in the china cupboard."… Chap. 10 Chinese lanterns, electrically illuminated, were strung across the studio at a convenient height so that athletic dancers could prodigiously leap up and make them swing… Chap. 31. The deck awning had been rolled up to the centre, and at the four corners of its frame had been hung four temporary electric lights within Chinese lanterns… Chap. 33. Then she noticed that all the dust sheets had been removed from the furniture, that the carpet had been laid, that a table had been set for tea, that there were flowers and china and a teapot and bread-and-butter and a kettle and a spirit-lamp on the table… She had caught him at last. There were two cups and saucers--the best ancient blue-and-white china, out of the glass-fronted china cupboard in that very room!... Chap. 34. "Have my tea, and do sit down, Winnie, and remember you're an Essex woman!" Audrey adjured her, going to the china cupboard to get more cups… Jane Foley snatched at one of the four cups and saucers on the table, and put it back, all unwashed, into the china cupboard… Chap. 39. He paid lavishly and willingly, convinced by hard experience that the best is inestimable, but he felt too that the best was really quite cheap, for he knew that there were imperfectly educated people in the world who thought nothing of paying the price of a good meal for a mere engraving or a bit of china… Chap. 40. The house was an old one; it had a curious staircase, with china knobs on the principal banisters of the rail, and crimson-tasselled bell cords at all the doors of the flats… 1918 Bennett, Arnold. The roll-call. (London : Hutchinson, 1918). Chap. 9. The increasing success of the campaign against Protection, and certain signs that the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa could be effectively resisted, had excited the middle-aged provincial--now an Alderman--and he had managed to communicate fire to George… 1918 Bennett, Arnold. A pretty lady : a novel. (London : Cassell, 1918). Chap. 7. As for Mrs. Braiding managing, she would manage in a kind of way, but the risks to Regency furniture and china would be grave. She did not understand Regency furniture and china as Braiding did; no woman could… He was laughing at himself. Regency furniture and china!... Chap. 8. The shops and offices seemed to show that the wants of customers were few and simple. Grouse moors, fisheries, yachts, valuations, hosiery, neckties, motor-cars, insurance, assurance, antique china, antique pictures, boots, riding-whips, and, above all, Eastern cigarettes!... Chap. 15. "It is possible that it is simple when one is English. But English--that is as if to say Chinese. Everything contrary. Here is a pen."… Chap. 19. On a Chinese tray on a lacquered table by the bed was a spirit-lamp and kettle, and a box of matches in an embroidered case with one match sticking out ready to be seized and struck… 1922 Bennett, Arnold. Mr. Prohack. (London : Methuen, 1922). Chap. 1. Her black hair was elaborately done for the day, but she wore a roomy peignoir instead of a frock; it was Chinese, in the Imperial yellow, inconceivably embroidered with flora, fauna, and grotesques… Mrs. Prohack slipped off the arm of the chair. Her body seemed to vibrate within the Chinese gown, and she effervesced into an ascending and descending series of sustained laughs… And at the door, discreetly hiding her Chinese raiment behind the door, Eve said, as if she had only just thought of it, though she had been thinking of it for quite a quarter of an hour… Chap. 4. An attitude familiar to Mr. Prohack and one that he liked! She was wearing the Chinese garment of the morning, but he perceived that she had done something to it… He had been touched by her manoeuvre, half economy and half coquetry, with the Chinese dress… Chap. 7. "Arthur," said Mrs. Prohack, who was in her Chinese robe, "do you know that girl hasn't been home all night. Her bed hasn't been slept in!"… Chap. 8. Odd as the spectacle was, Mr. Prohack enjoyed it. He enjoyed the youth and the prettiness and the litheness of the brightly-dressed girls and the stern masculinity of the men, and he enjoyed the thought that both girls and men had had the wit to escape from the ordinary world into this fantastic environment created out of four walls, a few Chinese lanterns, some rouge, some stuffs, some spangles, friction between two pieces of metal, and the profoundest instinct of nature… Chap. 11. Am I to give him orders as to what he must do and what he mustn't? This isn't China and it isn't the eighteenth century… Chap. 20. She had hastily cast about her plumpness the transformed Chinese gown, which had the curious appearance of a survival from some former incarnation… 1925 Bennett, Arnold. The human machine. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1925). Chap. 7. No one can get in there and rage about like a bull in a china shop… Chap. 10. We are cursed by too much of the missionary spirit. We must needs voyage into the China of our brother's brain, and explain there that things are seriously wrong in that heathen land, and make ourselves unpleasant in the hope of getting them put right… |
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Bibliography (6)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1937 |
Bennett, Arnold. Zen yang sheng huo. Benneite zhu ; Zheng Zufa yi. (Shanghai : Chang cheng shu ju, 1937). Übersetzung von Bennett, Arnold. How to live on 24 hours a day. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1910). 怎樣生活 |
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| 2 | 1955 |
Bennett, Arnold. Huo mai. Ji Hua yi. (Taibei : Zheng zhong shu ju, 1955). (Shi jie xiao shuo ming zh jing xuan. Übersetzung von Bennett, Arnold. Buried alive : a tale of these days. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1908). 活埋 |
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| 3 | 1958 |
Bennett, Arnold. Wen xue qu wei. Shannei Yixiong [Yamanouchi Kazuo] yi. (Dongjungdu : Yan bo shu dian yin xing, zhao he san shi san nian, 1958). Übersetzung von Bennett, Arnold. Literary taste, how to form it, with detailed instructions for collecting a complete library of English literature. (London : The New Age Press, 1909). 文學趣味 |
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| 4 | 1987 |
Bennett, Arnold. Yi tian er shi si xiao shi ru he du guo. Anuo'erde Beiniete ; Lin Lin yi zhe. (Wuhan : Hubei ren min chu ban she, 1987). Übersetzung von Bennett, Arnold. How to live on 24 hours a day. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1910). 一天二十四小时如何度过 |
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| 5 | 1989 |
Bennett, Arnold. Babilun da fan dian. Beineite yuan zhu ; John and Alison Tedman jian xie ; Tian Luyi, Shen Li yi. (Beijing : Wai yu jiao xue yu yan jiu chu ban she, 1989). (Jian yi ying han dui zhao du wu). Übersetzung von Bennett, Arnold. The Grand Babylon Hotel : a fantasia on modern themes. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1902). 巴比伦大饭店 |
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| 6 | 2012 | Arnold Bennett : http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Bennett%2C%20Arnold%2C%201867-1931. | Web / Benn1 |
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Secondary Literature (1)
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| 1 | 1934 |
[Cross, Wilbur L.]. Yingguo dang dai si xiao shuo jia. Li Weinong, Zhang Shaolie, Jiang Shizhou yi. (Shanghai : Guo li bian yi guan chu ban, 1934). Übersetzung von Cross, Wilbur Lucius. Four contemporary novelists : J. Conrad, A. Bennett, J. Galsworthy, H.G. Wells. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1930). 英國當代四小說家 |
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