The Human Machine
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About This Book
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘The Human Machine’.This is a typical example of the sort of self-improvement essays or book that Arnold Bennett produced so readily during his heyday. In Britain in the first decades of the 20th century, there was a demand for anything that would help ordinary people better themselves, and Bennett obliged with volumes on Mental Efficiency, how to live 24 hours a day, how to improve one’s literary taste, as well as books on the life of a novelist, etc. Bennett (1867-1931) was a British novelist. He was born in a modest house in H...
Chapters (19)
- THE HUMAN MACHINE
- ARNOLD BENNETT
- CONTENTS
- I TAKING ONESELF FOR GRANTED
- II AMATEURS IN THE ART OF LIVING
- III THE BRAIN AS A GENTLEMAN-AT-LARGE
- IV THE FIRST PRACTICAL STEP
- V HABIT-FORMING BY CONCENTRATION
- VI LORD OVER THE NODDLE
- VII WHAT 'LIVING' CHIEFLY IS
- VIII THE DAILY FRICTION
- IX 'FIRE!'
- X MISCHIEVOUSLY OVERWORKING IT
- XI AN INTERLUDE
- XII AN INTEREST IN LIFE
- XIII SUCCESS AND FAILURE
- XIV A MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
- XV L.S.D.
- XVI REASON, REASON!
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