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Three complete novels in one The Rome Express - Arthur Griffiths
The Voice in the Fog - Harold MacGrath The Grand Babylon Hotel -
Arnold Bennett Three novels of travel and mystery from some of the
best known writers of the Edwardian Age A man is mysteriously
murdered on the night express from Rome to Paris. Which one of the
passengers is the murderer. The Countess? The General? The
clergyman? The maid who disappeared? A sapphire necklace stolen
from a cab in the London fog. A ship's steward who is either more
or less than he appears to be. A jewel thief who criss-crosses the
Atlantic in search of victims. A grand London hotel. A missing
German prince. A murdered man whose body disappears from the hotel.
These are the challenges facing an American millionaire and his
daughter after he buys The Grand Babylon Hotel.
First published in 1904 and twice reprinted, this book strongly
influenced nationalist debate between 1904 and 1921. Its central
proposal - the withdrawal of Irish elected representatives from
Westminster - was inherited from the Hungarian Franz Deak's policy
of non co-operation with the imperial parliament in Vienna in the
1860s. The idea of the dual monarchy, adopted by Austria and
Hungary in 1867 in which each recognised the Austrian Emperor but
had separate parliaments, continued to be advocated by a few Irish
politicians as late as the 1920s. Griffith also expounds here his
protectionist economic views which influenced Irish government
policy for several decades.
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