Reproduction of the original: The Author s Craft by Arnold Bennett

"How to Make the Best of Life" is a 1923 self help book by English writer Arnold Bennett. It offers the reader simple, practical advice on how to lead a good life, looking at how one should deal with such aspects as business, love, children, citizenship, and much more. A timeless self-betterment manual that has helped improve people's lives for nearly a hundred years. Contents include: "Temperament and Habits", "Establishing Good Humour: Three Aids", "The Business of Education", "Starting Life", "Falling in Love", "Marriage", "The Continuation of Marriage", "Children", "Not for the Young", and "Being Interested in the Community". Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English writer. Although he is perhaps best remembered for his popular novels, Bennett also produced work in other areas including the theatre, propaganda, journalism, and film. Other notable works by this author include: "Helen with a High Hand" (1910), "The Card" (1911), and "Hilda Lessways" (1911). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an introductory essay on Arnold Bennett by F. J. Harvey Darton.

In this delightful volume of insightful and good-humored advice, motivational writer Arnold Bennett points out that for all of the time we humans dedicate to learning, very little of that time is spent endeavoring to elucidate helpful points for living life well, and to the fullest. It's a sad state of affairs that Bennett sets out to remedy in The Human Machine.

First published in 1907, The Ghost was the first of many "fantasias on modern times" written by Arnold Bennett. These illustrated his ability to produce not only realistic novels, perfected in his portrayals of provincial English life set in the Staffordshire scenery of his childhood, but also more sensational stories, written after his move to London where he developed a far more cosmopolitan interest. A supernatural story, The Ghost tells the tale of a beautiful opera star, Rosetta Rosa, whose beauty seems to cast a spell upon all those who meet her. When Carl Foster, a young doctor, sees Rosa at a London opera, and is instantly captivated, he soon finds himself plagued by mysterious happenings, and begins to see a malignant, spectral figure everywhere he turns. When another man enraptured by Rosa mysteriously dies, Carl begins to wonder whether loving her could bring with it a deadly curse. Moving between London and Paris, this fast-paced story draws the reader into a ghostly world of twists, turns, drama, and suspense.