Arnold Bennett

Broschiertes Buch

How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day

Beschreibung

"How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day" is a classic guide to making the most out your time. Written in response to the popularity of "How to Live on Such-and-Such an Amount of Money", this volume is based on the premise that time is more valuable than money, and it aims to enlighten people to this fact. Contents include: "The Daily Miracle", "The Desire to Exceed One's Programme", "Precautions Before Beginning", "Tennis and the Immortal Soul", "Remember Human Nature", "Controlling the Mind", "The Reflective Mood", "Interest in the Arts", "Nothing in Life is Humdrum", "Serious Reading", "Dangers to Avoid", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Autor

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author who lived from May 27, 1867, to March 27, 1931. He was best known for writing a lot of novels. From the 1890s to the 1930s, he wrote 34 books, seven collections of short stories, 13 plays (some with other writers), and a daily journal with more than a million words. He wrote stories and pieces for more than 100 newspapers and magazines. During the First World War, he worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information. In the 1920s, he wrote for movies. At the time, he was the most famous British author in terms of money made from book sales. Bennett was born in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, into a modest but highly mobile family. His father was a solicitor, and he wanted Bennett to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer. Bennett first worked for his dad as a lawyer. When he was 21, he became a clerk at another law firm in London. He first worked as a junior editor and then as editor of a women's magazine. In 1900, he quit his job as an editor to just write full-time. He moved to Paris in 1903 because he loved French culture in general and French writing in particular. The laid-back atmosphere there helped him get over his severe shyness, especially around women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Forbes Press
• Seitenzahl: 62
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 92g
• ISBN-13: 9781446521205
• ISBN-10: 1446521206
• Artikelnr.: 33186064