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By Arnold Bennett
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A newly married couple spend their honeymoon at a small seaside hotel, and the comedy examines the tensions between impulsive passion and deliberate reserve as personal mannerisms, domestic routines, and family expectations collide. Scenes alternate intimate exchanges with visits from relatives and acquaintances, notably a celebrated novelist, her husband, and the couple's brothers, producing misunderstandings, social satire, and farcical complications. The three-act structure foregrounds character sketches and witty observations on marriage, fame, and manners.

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Title: The Honeymoon: A comedy in three acts

Author: Arnold Bennett

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Language: English

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THE HONEYMOON

WORKS BY ARNOLD BENNETT

NOVELS

  • A Man from the North
  • Anna of the Five Towns
  • Leonora
  • A Great Man
  • Sacred and Profane Love
  • Whom God hath Joined
  • Buried Alive
  • The Old Wives' Tale
  • The Glimpse
  • Helen with the High Hand
  • Clayhanger
  • The Card
  • Hilda Lessways
  • The Regent

FANTASIAS

  • The Grand Babylon Hotel
  • The Gates of Wrath
  • Teresa of Watling Street
  • The Loot of Cities
  • Hugo
  • The Ghost
  • The City of Pleasure

SHORT STORIES

  • Tales of the Five Towns
  • The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
  • The Matador of the Five Towns

BELLES-LETTRES

  • Journalism for Women
  • Fame and Fiction
  • How to become an Author
  • The Truth about an Author
  • The Reasonable Life
  • How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
  • The Human Machine
  • Literary Taste
  • The Feast of St. Friend

DRAMA

  • Polite Farces
  • Cupid and Common Sense
  • What the Public Wants
  • The Honeymoon
  • The Great Adventure

(In Collaboration with Eden Phillpotts)

  • The Sinews of War: A Romance
  • The Statue: A Romance

(In Collaboration with Edward Knoblauch)

  • Milestones

THE HONEYMOON
A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS

BY

ARNOLD BENNETT

THIRD EDITION

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published October 5th 1911
Second Edition January 5th 1912
Third Edition 1914