edition of 4 February 1992 was on the Penguin Classics line. Various editions were published in 1947, 1958(an abridged version by Longmans, Green & Co.), 1959, 1961, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1984(a large print edition),1990, 1996. On 1 September 2001, Project Gutenberg released an e-book version of the novel. Since the 2000s, the novel has been in and out of print. Academic publisher Broadview Press published a new edition on 3 August 2016 edited by Randi Saloman, an Assistant Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University. Reception London-based literature review periodical The Academy had an unsigned review that called the novel a "very amusing story of the feuilleton type". Review had also said that novel was "excellent in the mingling of farce and characterization." An unsigned review in The Times Literary Supplement notes that Grand Babylon follows a type of subgenre that Anthony Hope had begun with The Prisoner of Zenda and praised Bennett's ability to keep readers interest from the first page to the last. Film and Radio adaptations In 1916 the novel was adapted into a British film The Grand Babylon Hotel directed by Frank Wilson. In 1920 the title was used by the German filmmaker E.A. Dupont for his thriller The Grand Babylon Hotel. Dupont and Bennett later worked together on the 1929 film Piccadilly. Chris Harrald adapted the novel for BBC Radio 4 in 2009 in 2 parts with John Sessions as Theodore Racksole and Matti Houghton as Nella Racksole, Stephen Critchlow as Prince Eugen, Fenella Woolgar as Miss Spencer and Joe Kloska as Aribert. Xavier Mauméjean adapted Lise Capitan's French language translation for Radio France Culture (Samedi Noir programme). References External links 1902 British novels British novels adapted into films Novels by Arnold Bennett Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in the Daily Mail Chatto & Windus books