Grand Babylon Hotel [Paperback]

Arnold Bennett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 2008

Theodore Racksole's daughter wants a steak and a beer, but is refused and so Racksole buys the hotel. A hotel clerk disappears, and the body of a retainer sent to prepare for a visit by Prince Eugen is found, but then also vanishes. The Prince himself fails to show up and there follows an international hunt to determine his whereabouts, with Racksole's daughter resorting to brandishing a revolver in Ostend in an attempt to solve the various mysteries. A complex plot with a nonetheless strong central theme, which involves abduction, fraud and impersonation, unwinds in this truly gripping tale.

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About the Author

Enoch Arnold Bennett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Hanley, Staffordshire. At twenty-one, he moved to London, initially to work as a solicitor's clerk, but he soon turned to writing popular serial fiction and editing a women's magazine. After the publication of his first novel, A Man From the North in 1898, he became a professional writer. He moved to Paris and became a man of cosmopolitan and discerning tastes. Bennett's great reputation is built upon the success of his novels and short stories set in the Potteries, an area of north Staffordshire that he recreated as the 'Five Towns'. Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale show the influence of Flaubert, Maupassant and Balzac as Bennett describes provincial life in great detail. Arnold Bennett is an important link between the English novel and European realism. He wrote several plays and lighter works such as The Grand Babylon Hotel and The Card.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: House of Stratus; New Edition edition (January 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755115929
• ISBN-13: 978-0755115921
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,818,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)