Mr. Prohack
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English literature students studying early twentieth-century realist fiction
- Readers who enjoy slow-paced character novels with everyday detail and humor
- English learners who want to build everyday expression and conversational feel through fiction
- Cultural readers interested in early twentieth-century English middle-class life
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer plot-driven, fast-paced genre fiction with suspense and twists
- Beginners who want systematic literary history without reading the original texts
- Light readers with little patience for nineteenth- to twentieth-century English prose
Reading tips
- Read the first five chapters to map the characters, then continue, so you don't give up during the setup.
- Watch for irony and humor in the dialogue; excerpt passages to get a feel for Bennett's tone.
- Read alongside background material on early twentieth-century English society to understand the money and class themes.
- After finishing, revisit the key turning-point chapters and trace the lines of the characters' psychological change.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English novelist, essayist and playwright. Publicly available information is limited, so his early life and education cannot be described in detail, but his work is clearly recognisable. He often set his writing in the five pottery towns of Staffordshire, his home region, portraying the daily livelihoods and emotional ups and downs of ordinary people in a meticulous, restrained style, and revealing character and circumstance through everyday detail. The collection here holds 45 of his works, including The Old Wives' Tale, Riceyman Steps, Clayhanger and several Five Towns story collections, as well as essays such as The Author's Craft and How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. His writing thus spans fiction and essays on life and the craft of writing, drawing its material from ordinary life with a plain style and close observation.
