The Collected works of Arnold Bennett

This book includes ten short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of "The Night Visitor" is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend. "The Cattle Drive" is a vivid description of a cowboy's trek with a thousand head of cattle across the Mexican plains; it has all the authenticity that Hollywood Westerns lack. "Macario, " which was made into a prize-winning motion picture, is a wry Mexican fable about an Indian woodcutter who makes a compact with the devil to save his family from starvation. Among seven shorter stories, some are based on incidents from contemporary Mexican life, others on ancient Indian folk legends.

The second novel in the series parallels Edwin Clayhanger's story from the point of view of his eventual wife, Hilda, by telling the story of her coming of age, her working experiences as a shorthand clerk and as a keeper of lodging houses in London and Brighton, her relationship with George Cannon, which ends in her disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy, and her reconciliation with Edwin Clayhanger. Bennett includes some scenes from the first book retold from Hilda's perspective. - Wikipedia.

Hugo, the son of a charcoal maker, is an independent little fellow who lives deep in the woods. When he isn’t learning from spiders, he goes to school and promptly visits with each pupil asking about their families. After that, he settles down – to a nap. One day, he and his friend Josephine decide to earn some money and come up with ingenious schemes ranging from mushroom harvests to delivering mail on a towering antique bicycle. Into their cheerful world comes a strange, aloof girl whose icy manner is resented by her classmates. How Hugo and Josephine finally recognize her pathetic loneliness and draw her out of her shell makes a profound and touching story. - From Back Cover

This is about an heiress who goes to Paris and gets into an upper class social circle, returns to England to help with the suffrage movement and then goes back to Paris. --Phil at Amazon.com.

This edition includes seven additional short stories by Arnold Bennett.

"The Great Adventure: A Play of Fancy in Four Acts" by Arnold Bennett is a captivating drama that unfolds the story of renowned painter Ilam Carve and the series of events following his sudden illness and death. Set against the backdrop of family dynamics and personal relationships, the play delves into themes of secrets, desires, and human nature. As characters navigate unexpected twists and confront their motivations, the narrative explores the consequences of their actions in a dramatic and engaging manner.

Published in 1930, "Imperial Palace" is a novel by English writer Arnold Bennett (1867-1931, full name: Enoch Arnold Bennett), which follows the daily workings of a hotel modelled on the original Savoy Hotel in London. Although very successful, it was overshadowed by Vicki Baum's best-selling novel, "People in a Hotel" (Menschen im Hotel), which was published the same year and turned into the Academy Award winning film, Grand Hotel. - Amazon.com