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Grand Babylon Hotel, a Fantasia on Modern Themes
  
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Grand Babylon Hotel, a Fantasia on Modern Themes (Hardcover)

by Arnold Bennett (Author)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Unspeakable, May 13 2002
This review is from: 20th Century Grand Babylon Hotel (Paperback)
Well, what can be said about this book, other than it's hardly believable that Arnold Bennett could have penned such a poor piece of work (or perhaps I haven't read enough of him?).

Briefly, Theodore Racksole, an American millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel in London in a fit of pique due to the fact that the hotel refuses to serve him the meal he wants. (The limitations of English cuisine is in fact the only believable part of the plot). Thereafter Racksole and his daughter Helen (aka Nella) become involved in various shenanigans centred on the German Prince Eugen of Posen.

This is a very very dated potboiler of a thriller. Where it isn't predictable, it's ludicrous. Those with a morbid curiosity for terrible period pieces might get some enjoyment out of reading it. I'm trying to forget it.

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