Arnold: 1995 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘The Author's Craft’. Written in 1914, this is a short exposition by Bennett on writing. He doesn't get into technique other than to expound on the need for "design" or "construction" to follow inspiration....

A descendant of Nathan Bedford Forrest's slaves, Al Arnold, tells his journey of embracing his Confederate heritage. His ancestor, Turner Hall, Jr., a Black Confederate, served as a body servant for two Confederate soldiers and an orderly for Gen. Robert E. Lee. Turner Hall, Jr. was celebrated by Blacks...

Includes a brief biography of Frederic Arnold Kummer, the real name of the author of this book who proves also to be a mystery. Arnold Fredericks a.k.a. Frederic Arnold Kummer while not a prolific novelist wrote several well received books including Ivory Snuff Box, Film of Fear and The Blue Lights....

“A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada.” —Royal Robbins It’s 1873. Gore-Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still call to those with a spirit of adventure. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open...

When Carl Foster, a young doctor, sees beautiful Rosetta Rosa at a London opera he is instantly captivated -- and almost as rapidly finds himself plagued by mysterious occurances. When another of Rosa's paramours un-expectedly dies, Carl begins to wonder if her glamour carries a deadly curse....

ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS follows the life of Anna Tellwright, the daughter of a wealthy but miserly and cruel father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Anna seeks to escape the boredom and constraints of her life; she falls in love with Willie Price, the son of a bankrupt suicide,...

In BURIED ALIVE, a famous painter craves anonymity and takes the opportunity to assume the identity of a dead employee.  While he finds solace in the ordinary nature of his deceased employee comforting, getting his true identity back might be easier said than done. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)...

THE OLD WIVES' TALE follows the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, to their old age. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist,...

In the Midwest, the saying goes, “Revenge is a hot-dish best served cold” – or something to that effect. In Joel Arnold’s new short story collection A WRINKLE IN CRIME, revenge is also served at a lakeside resort, in an outhouse, at a state fair, on a camping trip in the Gallatin Mountains,...

Come along with Mr. Woo as he learns that the world is really bigger than he expected!  Mr. Woo is a curious but lucky piglet. One day, he decides to sneak away and have his own adventure over by the pond. He looses track of time and gets sleepy. When he wakes up, it's dark!  Frightened,...

"Culture and Anarchy" is Arnold's most famous piece of writing on culture which established his High Victorian cultural agenda and remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. Arnold's often quoted phrase "culture is the best which has been thought and said" comes...

Arnold Wesker's plays, written over a period of more than fifty years, offer actors, male and female, a remarkable source of monologues covering themes such as friendship, death, old age, political disillusion, failed love, and self discovery fuelled by emotions ranging through anger, joy, hope, fear,...

At the age of sixty-nine, author Bev Arnold realized a long-secreted childhood dream. She released her debut country music CD, Never Too Late. Just months later, she found herself sitting in a doctors office receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. In A Patchwork of Pink, Arnold narrates her life story,...

Why Don't You Just Talk to Him? looks at the broad political contexts in which violence, specifically domestic violence, occurs. Kathleen Arnold argues that liberal and Enlightenment notions of the social contract, rationality and egalitarianism -- the ideas that constitute norms of good citizenship...