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Today's featured article Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English author who wrote 34 novels, 7 volumes of short stories and a daily journal of more than a million words. He also wrote or co-wrote 13 plays, wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the UK's Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. He was the most financially successful British author of his day. Because his books appealed to a wide public rather than to literary cliques and élites, and for his adherence to realism, Virginia Woolf and other writers and supporters of the modernist school belittled him, and his fiction became neglected after his death. Studies of his writing since the 1970s have led to a re-evaluation of Bennett's work, and his finest novels, including Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923), are now widely recognised as major works. (Full article...) Recently featured: Torture Mckenna Grace Etika Did you know... Arndt Jorgens ... that Arndt Jorgens (pictured) won five World Series despite not playing in a game? ... that 28 trillion tonnes of ice were lost worldwide between 1994 and 2017 due to climate change? ... that Daniel Chapo, the favorite to be the next president of Mozambique, was previously a radio announcer? ... that according to some metaphysicians, there are no relations? ... that William Henry Harrison Seeley was the first American recipient of the Victoria Cross? ... that farmed birds often get marks known as hock burns from the ammonia of other birds' waste? ... that the botanist Victor Jacob Koningsberger spoke out against the expulsion of Jewish academics in the occupied Netherlands? ... that there's a little Canada on Minnesota State Highway 36? ... that David W. Music has taught music, composed music, conducted music, and written about music?

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