The Loot of Cities, and Further Adventures in Crime and Mystery de Arnold Bennett

The Loot of Cities, and Further Adventures in Crime and Mystery

Arnold Bennett

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2010

The Loot of Cities is made up of six adventures of a bored millionaire who plays the rogue, traveling Europe as he tweaks scoundrels, probes mysteries, and finds romance. Arnold Bennett was a popular English author, better known for his novels, but also a prolific short story writer. In addition to The Loot of Cities, this collection includes seven short stories with elements of mystery, crime, romance, humor, and the supernatural.

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Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films. In 1889 Bennett won a literary competition run by the magazine Tit-Bits and was encouraged to take up journalism full-time. In 1894 he became assistant editor of the magazine Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial that was bought by the syndicate for 75 pounds (equivalent to £10,000 in 2016). He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over four years later his novel A Man from the North was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine. In 1900 Bennett gave up the editorship of Woman and dedicated himself to writing full-time. However, he continued to write for newspapers and magazines while finding success in his career as a novelist. In 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the London newspaper the Evening Standard. One of Bennett's most popular non-fiction works was the self-help book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. His diaries have yet to be published in full, but extracts from them have often been quoted in the British press.