Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Question of Sex | 1900 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 2 | What the Public Wants | 1910 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 3 | Cupid and Commonsense | 1910 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 4 | Milestones | 1912 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 5 | The Great Adventure | 1913 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 6 | Judith | 1919 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 7 | Body and Soul | 1921 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 8 | The Love Match | 1922 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 9 | London Life | 1924 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 10 | Flora | 1933 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
| 11 | The Honeymoon | 2013 | Arnold Bennett | Buy |
Arnold Bennett wrote for the stage alongside his fiction career, and his eleven published plays range from A Question of Sex (1900) to The Honeymoon (reissued 2013). Milestones (1912), co-written with Edward Knoblock, follows three generations of an English family and was one of the most popular plays of its era.
The Great Adventure (1913) adapts his novel Buried Alive into a comedy about a painter who escapes fame by pretending to be dead. Later plays like Body and Soul (1921) and London Life (1924) reflect Bennett’s move toward more serious dramatic themes. Flora (1933) was published posthumously. The plays are less well-known than his fiction but show how Bennett’s interest in money, class, and domestic tension translated to the stage.