Arnold Bennett

Titles in Fiction category:

• Matador of the Five Towns, The

  Mrs Brindeley looked across the lunch-table at her husband with glinting, eager eyes, which showed that there was something unusual in the brain behind them.

Titles in Short Stories category:

• Blue Suit, The

  I was just going into my tailor's in Sackville Street, when who should be coming out of the same establishment but Mrs Ellis! I was startled, as any man might well have been, to see a lady emerging from my tailor's. Of course a lady might have been to a tailor's to order a tailor-made costume. ...

• Cat and Cupid, The

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• Catching the Train

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• Fortune Teller, The

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• Glimpse, The

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• Half-a-Sovereign

  The scene was the up-platform of Knype railway station on a summer afternoon, and, more particularly, that part of the platform round about the bookstall. There were three persons in the neighbourhood of the bookstall. The first was the principal bookstall clerk, who was folding with extraordin ...

• Heroism of Thomas Chadwick, The

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• Hot Potatoes

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• Jock-at-a-Venture

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• Letter and the Lie, The

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• Long-Lost Uncle, The

  On a recent visit to the Five Towns I was sitting with my old schoolmaster, who, by the way, is much younger than I am after all, in the bow window of a house overlooking that great thoroughfare, Trafalgar Road, Bursley, when a pretty woman of twenty-eight or so passed down the street. Now the ...

• Mimi

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• Revolver, The

  When friends observed his occasional limp, Alderman Keats would say, with an air of false casualness, "Oh, a touch of the gout."

• Supreme Illusion, The

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• Three Episodes in the Life of Mr Cowlishaw, Dentist

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• Tiger and the Baby, The

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• Tight Hand, The

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• Under the Clock

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• Unfair Advantage, An

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• Why the Clock Stopped

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• Widow of the Balcony, The

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