List of works by Arnold Bennett

The English novelist, journalist and playwright Arnold Bennett wrote prolifically between 1898 and his death in 1931. This is a list of his published books and adaptations of his works for stage and screen.

Novels
Sources: New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and Arnold Bennett by Margaret Drabble.

Short stories

 * The Loot of Cities: Being the Adventures of a Millionaire in Search of Joy 1905
 * The Loot of Cities; Mr Penfound's two Burglars; Midnight at the Grand Babylon; The Police Station; The Adventure of the Prima Donna; The Episode in Room 222; Saturday to Monday; A Dinner at the Louvre


 * Tales of the Five Towns 1905
 * At Home; His Worship the Goose Driver; The Elixir of Youth; Mary with the High Hand; The Dog; A Feud; Phantom; Tiddy-Fol-Lol; The Idiot; Abroad; Hungarian Rhapsody; The Sisters Quita; Nocturne at the Majestic; Clarice of the Autumn Concerts; A Letter Home (written in 1893)


 * The Grim Smile of the Five Towns 1907
 * The Lion's Share; The Baby's Bath; The Silent Brothers; The Nineteenth Hat; Vera's First Christmas Adventure; The Murder of the Mandarin; Vera’s Second Christmas Adventure; The Burglary; The News of the Engagement; Beginning the New Year; From one Generation to Another; The Death of Simon Fuge; In a New Bottle


 * The Matador of the Five Towns 1912
 * Tragedy: The Matador of the Five Towns; Mimi; The Supreme Illusion; The Letter and the Lie; The Glimpse; Frolic: Jock-at-a-Venture; The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick; Under the Clock; Three episodes of the life of Mr Cowlishaw, dentist; Catching the Train; The Widow at the Balcony; The Cat and Cupid; The Fortune Teller; The Long-lost Uncle; The Tight Hand; Why the Clock Stopped; Hot Potatoes; Half a Sovereign; The Blue Suit; The Tiger and the Baby; The Revolver; An Unfair Advantage


 * Elsie and the Child, and other stories 1924
 * Elsie and the Child; During Dinner; The Paper Cap; The Box-Office Girl; Mr Jack Hollins against Fate; Nine o'clock To-morrow; The Yacht; Outside and Inside; Last Love; The Mysterious Destruction of Mr Ipple; The Perfect Creature; The Fish; The Limits of Dominion


 * The Woman who Stole Everything, and other stories 1927
 * The Woman who Stole Everything; A Place in Venice; The Toreador; Middle-aged; The Umbrella; House to Let; Claribel; Time to think; One of their Quarrels


 * The Night Visitor and other stories 1931
 * The Night Visitor; The Cornet-Player; Murder; The Hat; Under the Hammer; The Wind; Honour; The First Night; The Seven Policemen; Myrtle at 6 a.m.; Strange Affair at an Hotel; The Second Night; The Understudy; The Peacock; Dream; Baccarat; The Mouse and the Cat


 * "Uncollected Short Stories 1892-1932" (pub 2010)
 * He Needn’t Have Troubled How He Looked; The Artist’s Model; In a Hospital. A Broken-Off Match; The Heavenly Twins on the Revolt of the Daughters; A Modern Girl. The Revolt of me Daughter; The Silken Serpent. A Fantasia; A First Night. ‘The Floodgates of Society’; Strange Story. In the Matter of a Letter and a Lady; Five O’Clock at the Heroines’ Club. A Fantasy; Rejected. A Girl and Another Girl; An Academy Work. The Mutilation of a Statue; Fenella: A Manx Idyll; ‘My First Book’; The Repentance of Ronald Primula; A Divided Ghost; The Clapham Theosophical Society; An Astral Engagement; The Fatal Marriage; Dr Anna Jekyll and Miss Hyde; The Phantasm of My Grandmother; The Crystal-Gazers; A Little Deal in ‘Kaffirs’; The Adamless Eden. A new Fairytale; John and the Lovely Stranger; The Marriage of Jane Hendra; The Christmas Chimes of Malyprès; Dragons of the Night; The Great Fire at Santa Claus’ House; The Romance of Bobby Lempriere; The Scratched Face; A Millionaire’s Wife; The Phantom Sneeze; The Strange Shelter; The Railway Station; The Farlls and a Woman; The White Feather; The Life of Nash Nicklin; The Muscovy Ducks; The Great Huntress; Leading to Marriage; The Flight


 * Lord Dover & Other Lost Stories (pub 2011)
 * Lord Dover; What’s Bred in the Bone; The Advanced Woman; Restaurant Spooks; The Renaissance of the Romp; Little Popow; Varnish and Vanity at the RA; On Growing Old; The Train; How Percy Goes to the Office; The Inner-Circle Express; Stella’s Journey; The Clock; The Fortress; The Power of Love; Miss Scrooge; The Lure of Life; The Alarm; What Men Want

Stage and screen

 * Polite Farces for the Drawing Room (contains The Stepmother, A Good Woman and A Question of Sex) 1899
 * Cupid and Commonsense (dramatisation of The Old Wives' Tale) 1908
 * What the Public Wants 1909
 * The Honeymoon 1911
 * Milestones (with Edward Knoblock) 1912
 * The Great Adventure 1913
 * The Title 1918
 * "The Wedding Dress" (film scenario) 1920
 * Sacred and Profane Love (based on the 1903 novel) 1919
 * Judith 1922
 * The Love Match 1922


 * Body and Soul 1922
 * Don Juan de Maraña 1923
 * London Life (with Knoblock) 1924
 * The Bright Island 1924
 * The Only Way film scenario 1926
 * Mr Prohack 1927 (with Knoblock, based on the 1922 novel)
 * The Return Journey 1928
 * "Punch and Judy" (film scenario) 1928
 * Piccadilly film screenplay 1929
 * Judith libretto for one-act opera, based on his 1922 play; music by Eugene Goossens 1929
 * Don Juan de Maraña libretto for four-act opera, based on his 1923 play, music by Goossens. Libretto completed in 1931; opera premiered (Covent Garden) 1937

Non-fiction

 * Journalism for Women 1898
 * Fame and Fiction (collected criticism) 1901
 * The Truth about an Author (autobiographical) 1903
 * How to Become an    Author: A Practical Guide 1903
 * The Reasonable Life 1907
 * The Human Machine: A Pocket Philosophy 1909
 * Literary Taste: How to Form It 1909
 * How to Live on 24 Hours a Day 1910
 * The Feast of St Friend: A Christmas Book 1911 (published in the US and in later British editions as Friendship and Happiness)
 * Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women 1911
 * Those United States 1912 (published in the US as Your United States)
 * The Plain Man and His Wife 1913
 * Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People 1913
 * The Author's Craft 1914


 * From the Log of the Velsa (travel sketches, published in the US in 1914 and in Britain in 1920)
 * Liberty: A Statement of the British Case 1914
 * Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front 1915
 * Books and Persons: Selections from The New Age 1908–1911) 1917
 * Self and Self-Management 1918
 * Our Women: Chapters on Sex-Discord 1920
 * The Art of A. E. Rickards 1920
 * Things That Have Interested Me 1921
 * Things That Have Interested Me (second series) 1923
 * How to Make the Best of Life 1923
 * How to Live 1925; consisting of "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day", "The Human Machine", "Mental Efficiency", and "Self and Self-Management"
 * Things That Have Interested Me (third series) 1926
 * The Savour of Life: Essays in Gusto 1928
 * The Religious Interregnum 1929

Journals

 * Volumes 1 and 2 (1896–1921), edited by Newman Flower, 1932
 * Volume (1921–1928), edited by Flower, 1933
 * Journal for 1929, edited by Bennett, 1930
 * Selections from the complete journals, edited and selected by Frank Swinnerton, 1954 (revised edition, with additions, 1971)
 * Florentine Journal, 1910 with illustrations by Bennett, 1967

Letters

 * The Letters of Arnold Bennett edited by James Hepburn, four volumes, 1966–1986

Sources: Arnold Bennett by Frank Swinnerton; Arnold Bennett by Margaret Drabble.

Cinema

 * The Grand Babylon Hotel (1916)
 * Milestones (1916)
 * Milestones (1920)
 * The Great Adventure (1921)
 * The Old Wives' Tale (1921)
 * The Card (1922)
 * His Double Life (1933)
 * Holy Matrimony (1943)
 * Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
 * The Card (1952)

Television
Sources: BBC Genome and British Film Institute.
 * The Great Adventure: BBC 1939, with D. A. Clarke-Smith, Marda Vanne and Felix Aylmer
 * The Great Adventure: BBC 1947, with Harold Scott, Iris Baker and Richard Goolden
 * The Title: BBC 1950, with Jill Esmond and Raymond Huntley
 * Milestones: BBC 1950, with Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray
 * The Great Adventure: BBC 1958, with Margaret Lockwood and Alec Clunes
 * Hilda Lessways: BBC 1959 – six-part dramatisation of Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways, with Judi Dench
 * What the Public Wants: BBC 1959, with Patrick Wymark, Dulcie Gray and Hugh Burden
 * The Old Wives' Tale: BBC 1964 – five-part dramatisation, with Frances Cuka and Lana Morris
 * Lord Raingo: BBC 1966 – four-part dramatisation, with Kenneth More
 * Imperial Palace: BBC 1969 – four-part dramatisation, with Roy Dotrice and Cyril Luckham
 * Whom God Hath Joined: BBC 1970, with Brian Blessed
 * The Price of Love: BBC 1970, with Stephan Chase
 * Clayhanger ATV 1976 – 26-part adaptation by Douglas Livingstone of Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways and These Twain, with Peter McEnery, Denis Quilley, Janet Suzman and Harry Andrews
 * Anna of the Five Towns: BBC 1985 – four-part dramatisation by John Harvey, with Lynsey Beauchamp, Emrys James, Peter Davison, Anton Lesser and Anna Cropper
 * Sophia and Constance: BBC 1988 – six-part dramatisation of The Old Wives' Tale by John Harvey, with Lynsey Beauchamp, Katy Behean and Patricia Routledge

Stage

 * Clayhanger: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman and Peter Terson, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, November 1967
 * Anna of the Five Towns: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, August 1969
 * The Old Wives’ Tale: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, August 1971
 * The Card: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, August 1973 and New Vic Theatre, October 1991. Also adapted by Deborah McAndrew for Claybody Theatre Company, Stoke-on-Trent, 2022
 * Riceyman Steps: adapted by Joyce Cheeseman, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, September 1982
 * Buried Alive: adapted by Joyce Holliday (formerly Cheeseman), New Vic, March 1988
 * The Pretty Lady: adapted by Joyce Holliday, New  Vic, September 1990

Source: Victoria Theatre Collection, Special Collections, Thompson Library, Staffordshire University