ABOUT THE BOOK

This book, part of a larger work entitled How to Live, offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing) within the confines of 24 hours a day. Addressing the large and growing number of white-collar workers who put in eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, at jobs they did not enjoy, and at worst hated, it urges them to seize their extra time, and make the most of it to improve themselves. Extra time could be found at the beginning of the day, by waking up early, and on the ride to work, on the way home from work, in the evening hours, and especially during the weekends. It also prescribes improvement measures such as reading great literature, taking an interest in the arts, reflecting on life, and learning self-discipline.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Enoch Arnold Bennett, better known as Arnold Bennett, was an English writer, journalist and theatre activist. He turning to full time writing, he was Editor of a magazine, entitled Woman. During the First World War, Bennett became Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. His important literary works include A Man from the North, The Grand Babylon Hotel, The Ghost--a Modern Fantasy, A Great Man,  The City of Pleasure, A Fantasia on Modern Themes,  The Old Wives' Tale, Journalism For Women,  How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Self and Self-Management, and Liberty: A Statement of the British Case.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

PREFACE. V

THE DAILY MIRACLE. 21

II THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE'S PROGRAMME. 28

III PRECAUTIONS DEFORE BEGINNING. 35

IV THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. 42

V TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL. 49

VI REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE. 56

VII CONTROLLING THE MIND. 62

VIII THE REFLECTIVE MOOD. 69

IX INTEREST IN THE ARTS. 76

X NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM. 83

XI SERIOUS READING, 90

XII DANGERS TO AVOID. 97