Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: 'Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931) was an English novelist. . He won a literary competition in Tit-Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full time. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for 75 pounds. He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babyl