Arnold Bennett (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Besides fifteen major novels, Arnold Bennett published thirty- three other novels generally considered potboilers by his critics. Some of them Bennett himself regarded as serious works; others he variously called “fantasias,” “frolics,” “melodramas,” or “adventures.” His total published work exceeds eighty volumes, including eight collections of short stories, sixteen plays, six collections of essays, eight volumes of literary criticism, three volumes of letters, six travelogues, and volumes of autobiography, journals, and reviews, as well...

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