La fille du magnat américain Theodore Racksole veut un steak et une bière, mais un palace d'un si haut standing que le Grand Hôtel Babylon ne saurait s'abaisser à des mets aussi vulgaires. Qu'à cela ne tienne : Racksole rachète donc l'hôtel. Mais le milliardaire ne s'attendait pas à ce que la gestion hôtelière soit semée de tant d'embûches : la réceptionniste disparaît, le maître d'hôtel démissionne, un jeune diplomate est trouvé mort et son corps est subtilisé.Et que devient donc le prince Eugène, qui devait descendre au Grand Hôtel Babylon et dont personne n'a de nouvelles ? Les énigmes s'accumulent et des machinations internationales semblent s'ourdir dans les corridors chics du palace.

Le Grand hôtel Babylon

"Yes, he's one of those men that don't know how to manage. Good situation. Regular income. Quite enough for luxuries as well as needs. Not really extravagant. And yet the fellow's always in difficulties. Somehow he gets nothing out of his money. Excellent flat-half empty! Always looks as if he'd had the brokers in. New suit-old hat! Magnificent necktie-baggy trousers! Asks you to dinner: cut glass-bad mutton, or Turkish coffee-cracked cup! He can't understand it. Explanation simply is that he fritters his income away. Wish I had the half of it! I'd show him-"

So we have most of us criticised, at one time or another, in our superior way.

We are nearly all chancellors of the exchequer: it is the pride of the moment. Newspapers are full of articles explaining how to live on such-and-such a sum, and these articles provoke a correspondence whose violence proves the interest they excite. Recently, in a daily organ, a battle raged round the question whether a woman can exist nicely in the country on L85 a year. I have seen an essay, "How to live on eight shillings a week." But I have never seen an essay, "How to live on twenty-four hours a day." Yet it has been said that time is money. That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time you can obtain money-usually. But though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has.

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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This book is the final volume in the Clayhanger trilogy, following   Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways. In many ways this is the most accomplished of the three novels.  
Enoch Arnold Bennett  (1867-1931) was a British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form an   important link between the English novel and the mainstream European   realism.

These Twain (Unabridged)

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A beautiful young girl, was a typist, though not a contented typist. She yearned after a high, impossible ideal, which involved all the more vulgar   luxuries so easily obtainable in exchange for cash.
The typewriting office at which she was employed had been started by Felix   Grig, a middle-aged man of means, as a hobby for his spinster sister. Miss   Grig suspected that Felix was more interested in Lilian than he ought to be ;   therefore, she gave Lilian the sack. But this ruse was unsuccessful, for   Felix invited Lilian to dine at the expensive restaurant of her dreams and   suggested a little trip to the Continent. Lilian accepted with alacrity and   off they went. Thereafter, chapters celebrating the delights of prosperous   indolence on the Riviera. Unhappily, after a few days of this delicious   existence Felix catches a cold and Lilian discovers that she is going to have   a baby. Felix's cold becomes pneu- monia ; but pneumonia or not, he gets up,   marries Lilian, makes a will leaving her everything, and dies. Lilian, having   assisted at the usual ceremonies, returns to England and lives happily or   unhappily ever afterwards in Felix's town house.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist, novelist, and writer.   After working as a rent collector and solicitor's clerk, Bennett won a   writing contest which convinced him to become a journalist. He later turned   to the writing of novels, including his most famous Clayhanger and Anna of   the five towns.

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This book  was written by British   writer Arnold Bennett. He lived in France from 1903-1911, and was the first   established author to be invited to tour the front for propaganda purposes,   spending three weeks in France and Belgium in June 1915 and publishing this   account later in the year. He was appointed Director of Propaganda in the   Ministry of Information in 1918.
Enoch Arnold Bennett  (1867-1931) was   a British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form   an important link between the English novel and the mainstream of European   realism. He also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and   film.
Table of Content :
1. Chapter 1. The Zone Of Paris
2. Chapter 2. On The French Front
3. Chapter 3. Ruins
4. Chapter 4. At Grips
5. Chapter 5. The British Lines
6. Chapter 6. The Unique City

Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front

Der erfolgreiche Geschäftsmann Henry Edward Machin aus Nordengland sucht nach einer neuen Herausforderung. Mit seinen Unternehmungen hat er alles erreicht und beginnt, sich zu langweilen. Er bekommt die Chance, in London ein Theater zu bauen. Mit der Theaterbranche kennt er sich zwar wenig aus, aber das Abenteuer reizt ihn. Das Projekt bringt seine alte Energie und Motivation zurück. Der Umgang mit ehrgeizigen Schauspielern und die große öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit gefallen ihm. Doch das Neuland der Theaterwelt hält für ihn auch einige Überraschungen bereit.

»Theater« von Arnold Bennett erschien erstmals 1913 (engl.: »The Regent« ). Das Buch bietet einen unterhaltsamen Blick auf die Welt des Theaters, gesehen aus der bodenständigen Perspektive eines Investors.

Theater - Roman

The old wives' tale

Why does not some mental efficiency specialist come forward and show us how to make our minds do the work which our minds are certainly capable of doing? I do not mean a quack. All the physical efficiency specialists who advertise largely are not quacks. Some of them achieve very genuine results. If a course of treatment can be devised for the body, a course of treatment can be devised for the mind. Thus we might realize some of the ambitions which all of us cherish in regard to the utilization in our spare time of that magnificent machine which we allow to rust within our craniums. We have the desire to perfect ourselves, to round off our careers with the graces of knowledge and taste. How many people would not gladly undertake some branch of serious study, so that they might not die under the reproach of having lived and died without ever really having known anything about anything! It is not the absence of desire that prevents them. It is, first, the absence of will-power-not the will to begin, but the will to continue; and, second, a mental apparatus which is out of condition, "puffy, " "weedy, " through sheer neglect. The remedy, then, divides itself into two parts, the cultivation of will-power, and the getting into condition of the mental apparatus. And these two branches of the cure must be worked concurrently

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