Arnold Bennett
Anna of the Five Towns
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The Old Wives' Tale
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: David Haig
- Length: 24 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 221
First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale tells the story of the Baines sisters: shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia, over the course of nearly half a century....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow down and let yourself go
- By Jane on 24-04-10
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The Old Wives' Tale
- Narrated by: David Haig
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 24 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-11-09
- Language: English
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The Card
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
The Card is the story of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, who rises from washerwoman's son to the Mayor of Bursley via a mixture of gentle deceit and personal hype....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bennett’s use of language is a pure pleasure
- By Squeaky Joe on 21-09-19
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The Card
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-11-15
- Language: English
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Anna of the Five Towns
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Set in industrial Staffordshire in the late 19th century, against a strong evangelical background, Anna of the Five Towns tells of the courting of hard businessman Ephraim Tellright's daughter....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliantly read and totally absorbing
- By Vanna on 25-04-13
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Anna of the Five Towns
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-03-11
- Language: English
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China Towns: Based on the Five Towns Novels
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Kate O'Flynn, Neil Dudgeon, Tim McInnerny, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In this radical reinterpretation of six brilliant Arnold Bennett novels, it’s the 19th-century Midlands and individuals rise and fall, they age, flourish, and try to keep up as the world around them changes into something unrecognisable, transformed by new technology....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Strange brew but still tasty....
- By Arthur Mennym on 05-11-20
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China Towns: Based on the Five Towns Novels
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Kate O'Flynn, Neil Dudgeon, Tim McInnerny, Don Gilet, Rebekah Staton, full cast
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 93
This classic personal time-management book, originally published in 1908, has inspired generations of men and women to live deliberate lives....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent wisdom
- By Quincy by the sea on 19-04-15
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-01-12
- Language: English
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Riceyman Steps
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narration style complements the book
- By Mr. Richard D. Weeks on 15-06-24
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Riceyman Steps
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-07-11
- Language: English
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The Grand Babylon Hotel
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
When American millionaire Theodore Racksole and his 23-year-old daughter Nella stumble upon The Grand Babylon Hotel, an exclusive London establishment, they are so struck by the fascinating building that Theodore decides to purchase it....
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The Grand Babylon Hotel
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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Helen with the High Hand
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Helen Rathbone meets her elderly uncle, James Ollerenshaw, in Bursley Park, after an estrangement of several years....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delicious novel, delightfully narrated.
- By Moray Hospitality on 18-09-19
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Helen with the High Hand
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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The Card
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Arnold Bennett's... splendidly comic portrayal of Edward Henry Machin....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- By Jill Goodman on 09-07-22
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The Card
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-06-11
- Language: English
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The Old Wives Tale
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Spanning nearly half a century, The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Braving it out
- By sue tid on 02-03-24
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The Old Wives Tale
- Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-03-11
- Language: English
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Great Classic Crime Stories
- Tales of Murder, Robbery, Extortion, Blackmail, Forgery, and Worse
- By: Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great stories, terrible narrator
- By Marilyn Burn on 07-12-15
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Great Classic Crime Stories
- Tales of Murder, Robbery, Extortion, Blackmail, Forgery, and Worse
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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Arnold Bennett : The Short Stories
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Bennett bathes us in vignettes of life, replete with characters that are easy to immerse ourselves in, whatever their ambitions may be....
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1 out of 5 stars
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arnold bennett is a superb storyteller
- By gill on 04-05-20
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Arnold Bennett : The Short Stories
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-04-12
- Language: English
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- The Complete Original Edition
- By: Arnold Bennett, Joel Fotinos
- Narrated by: Bruce Kramer
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Bennett encourages listeners to stop merely following the rote patterns of their lives and leverage their free hours by viewing time as a commodity like money - each of us is allotted exactly 24 hours every day to spend as we see fit. What we make of our lives will ultimately be a result of what we make of that time....
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- The Complete Original Edition
- Narrated by: Bruce Kramer
- Series: Simple Success Guides
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-02-20
- Language: English
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
In this audiobook, Arnold Bennett offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing ) within the confines of 24 hours a day....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Total waste of time
- By Elena on 23-06-14
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-12-08
- Language: English
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Anna of the Five Towns: Complete (BBC Radio 4: Classic Serial)
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom.....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not fundamentally a faithful adaptation
- By catsatcastle on 20-09-12
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Anna of the Five Towns: Complete (BBC Radio 4: Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-10-11
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales of Terror: Volume 7
- By: Rudyard Kipling, Arnold Bennett, Daniel Defoe, and others
- Narrated by: Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Bill Wallis, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and more....
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Gothic Tales of Terror: Volume 7
- Narrated by: Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Bill Wallis, Geoff McGivern, Ghizela Rowe
- Series: Gothic Tales of Terror, Book 7
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-04-12
- Language: English
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A Letter Home
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located.
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A Letter Home
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 23-10-24
- Language: English
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The Supreme Illusion
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located.
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The Supreme Illusion
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 23-10-24
- Language: English
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The Letter and the Lie
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 14 mins
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Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located.
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The Letter and the Lie
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 23-10-24
- Language: English
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Phantom
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 26 mins
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Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located.
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Phantom
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 23-10-24
- Language: English
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