Project Gutenberg 2004-06-25 Public domain in the USA. 101 Bennett, Arnold 1867 1931 Bennett, Enoch Arnold Bennett, E. Arnold The Author's Craft Reading ease score: 59.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. Seeing Life -- Writing Novels -- Writing Plays -- The Artist and the Public. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David McLachlan and PG Distributed Proofreaders "The Author's Craft" by Arnold Bennett is a collection of essays on the art of writing, likely composed in the early 20th century. The book delves into the intricate processes involved in observing life, writing novels and plays, and the relationship between the artist and the public. Bennett provides insights into the nature of authorship, creativity, and the responsibilities of the writer towards both their craft and their audience. At the start of the work, Bennett presents a vivid scene of a young puppy's tragic encounter with a motor-bus, using it as a metaphor to critique societal observation and awareness. The narrative describes how a crowd forms around the accident but fails to truly observe or comprehend the significance of the event unfolding before them. Instead, they merely witness the spectacle without engaging with the deeper implications of the life that has been lost. This reflection serves as a springboard for Bennett's exploration of observational skills in both life and writing, emphasizing the importance of being an active, rather than passive, observer in art. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Authorship PN Text Browsing: Journalism/Media/Writing Browsing: Literature 160216 159206 2024-10-06T04:30:35.430926 2023-10-06T06:29:38.648383 text/html text/html 161452 2020-12-15T04:42:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 55600 2020-12-15T04:42:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 128988 2024-10-06T04:30:40.584928 application/epub+zip 129618 2024-10-06T04:30:37.379915 application/epub+zip 129618 2024-10-06T04:30:36.145931 application/epub+zip 239549 2024-10-06T04:30:42.926912 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 219943 2024-10-06T04:30:39.835933 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 193927 2022-09-06T22:14:54.075929 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 130858 130790 2024-10-06T04:30:34.946947 2023-10-06T06:29:38.276403 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 130716 2020-12-15T04:42:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 50469 2020-12-15T04:42:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 130709 2020-12-15T04:42:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 50416 2020-12-15T04:42:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21225 2024-10-06T04:30:43.092903 application/rdf+xml 12451 2024-10-06T04:30:36.700934 image/jpeg 3425 2024-10-06T04:30:36.421932 image/jpeg 120987 2024-10-06T04:30:35.444928 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia