Hotel Splendide

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782277910

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Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans Pdf

“Truly a great book—unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre… Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better.” —Anthony Bourdain Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel… In this charming and uproariously funny hotel memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide—the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz—a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans' tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining. “[Bemelmans] was the original bad boy of the NY hotel/restaurant subculture, a waiter, busboy, and restaurateur who “told all” in a series of funny and true (or very near true) autobiographical accounts of backstairs folly, excess, borderline criminality, and madness in the grande Hotel Splendide… If you like stories about old New York as I do, this classic will have you laughing out loud.” –Anthony Bourdain

Author : Gilbert Sorrentino
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564782786

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Splendide-Hôtel by Gilbert Sorrentino Pdf

Arthur Rimbaud's invented "Splendide-Hotel," "built in the chaos of ice and of the polar night," provides the occasion for Sorrentino's imaginative meditation on letters and language. Each chapter serves as an opportunity for the author to expand on thoughts and images suggested by a letter of the alphabet, as well as to reflect upon the workings of the imagination, particularly in the art of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. Reminiscent of the philosophical treatise/poem "On Being Blue" by William H. Glass, "Splendide-Hotel" is a Grand Hotel of the mind, splendidly conceived.

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782277927

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Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans Pdf

“Truly a great book—unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre… Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better.” —Anthony Bourdain Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel… In this charming and uproariously funny hotel memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide—the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz—a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans' tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining. “[Bemelmans] was the original bad boy of the NY hotel/restaurant subculture, a waiter, busboy, and restaurateur who “told all” in a series of funny and true (or very near true) autobiographical accounts of backstairs folly, excess, borderline criminality, and madness in the grande Hotel Splendide… If you like stories about old New York as I do, this classic will have you laughing out loud.” –Anthony Bourdain

Author : Marie Redonnet
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015017431787

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Hotel Splendid by Marie Redonnet Pdf

The woman who owns the once proud Hotel Splendid is burdened with the care of her sickly and selfish sisters, and is forced to battle the elements as her now-decaying hotel is about to be swallowed up by an encroaching swamp

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782277910

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Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans Pdf

“Truly a great book—unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre… Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better.” —Anthony Bourdain Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel… In this charming and uproariously funny hotel memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide—the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz—a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans' tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining. “[Bemelmans] was the original bad boy of the NY hotel/restaurant subculture, a waiter, busboy, and restaurateur who “told all” in a series of funny and true (or very near true) autobiographical accounts of backstairs folly, excess, borderline criminality, and madness in the grande Hotel Splendide… If you like stories about old New York as I do, this classic will have you laughing out loud.” –Anthony Bourdain

Author : Bemelmans Ludwig
Publisher : Ediciones GATOPARDO SLU
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788412740356

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Hotel Splendide by Bemelmans Ludwig Pdf

En estas memorias disparatadas y no poco fantasiosas, Ludwig Bemelmans nos abre las puertas del fabuloso Hotel Splendide, trasunto apenas disimulado del Ritz de Nueva York, donde trabajó como camarero en los años de euforia y desenfreno previos al crac del veintinueve. En una serie de viñetas dignas de una película de los hermanos Marx, Bemelmans inmortaliza a los limpiadores, botones y ascensoristas que se afanan (y holgazanean) en los suntuosos vestíbulos y salones donde se divierte lo más granado de la sociedad neoyorquina. Un mundo de jerarquías sociales tan rígidas como porosas, habitado por personajes inolvidables como Monsieur Victor, el despótico maître d’hôtel; Mespoulets, serio candidato a «peor camarero del mundo»; o Kalakobé, el alegre friegaplatos que evoca las leyendas de su África natal. Publicado en 1941 y convertido con el tiempo en un clásico, Hotel Splendide aporta un contrapunto irónico y desenfadado al canon literario de los locos años veinte, cuya mitología literaria tanto debe a autores como Hemingway y Scott Fitzgerald: el del personaje secundario, el observador discreto y sagaz que toma notas mientras a su alrededor suena la música y fluye el champán.

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780091887872

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Hotel Bemelmans by Ludwig Bemelmans Pdf

Bemelmans humorous account of his behind-the-scenes experiences while working as headwaiter at his Uncle's hotel.

Author : Marie Redonnet
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803289510

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Forever Valley by Marie Redonnet Pdf

A sixteen-year old illiterate woman cares for the elderly rector of a tumbledown church in a mountain hamlet, but when the town hall across from the church is converted into a dance hall, the narrator is recruited for some of the hall's finer clientele

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0879238089

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La Bonne Table by Ludwig Bemelmans Pdf

A glorious celebration of a lifetime love affair with the art of dining, by the author of the classic Madeline series. Illustrated.

Author : Alastair Graham
Publisher : Boxer Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1906250898

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Full Moon Soup by Alastair Graham Pdf

Strange and ridiculous things happen at the Hotel Splendide when the chef takes his first sip of hot soup under the full moon.

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585678457

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When You Lunch with the Emperor by Ludwig Bemelmans Pdf

Author : Ian Fleming
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997919

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming Pdf

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the story of a magical transforming car that helps a family to foil a group of gangsters. It is the only children’s novel by Ian Fleming, the British author best known for the James Bond stories. The novel was dedicated to his son, though Fleming died before it was published. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Arthur Hailey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480490000

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Hotel by Arthur Hailey Pdf

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Airport reveals the inner workings of a New Orleans hotel—and the human drama unfolding behind its closed doors. During five sultry days, the lives of the guests, the management, and the workers at New Orleans’ largest and most elite hotel converge. The owner has four days to raise the money to save his financially ailing property. The general manager, once blacklisted from the hospitality business, struggles with one crisis after another. A rebellious heiress will do anything to attain her secret desires. The duke and the duchess in the lavish presidential suite are covering up a crime. And within one of the many guest rooms hides a professional thief. Filled with memorable characters and authentic detail about the inner machinery and secrets of a five-star hotel, this gripping New York Times bestseller sold millions of copies and was adapted for both film and TV. Set in a time when travel was still glamorous and grand independent hotels set the standard for luxury, it’s a read like a vacation in itself, from the author of such behind-the-scenes blockbusters as The Moneychangers and Wheels.

Author : John Griswold
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781425931001

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Ian Fleming's James Bond by John Griswold Pdf

****Updated and expanded including many illustrations by George Almond. Plus clearer translations of foreign terms. Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories officially approved by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (formerly Glidrose), with a Preface by Andrew Lycett and Forewords by Zoë Watkins, Publishing Manager, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.; Raymond Benson, author of The James Bond Bedside Companion, six original 007 novels, and numerous non-Bond novels. This book is the result of analysis of each of Fleming's James Bond novels. Within are glossaries of applicable terminology and references with detailed chronologies of events including annotations. Detailed chronologies of events are represented at a day-of-week, month, day, year, and time-of-day level. Glossaries contain translations of foreign terms, annotations, and other information of interest such as detailed information on the origin of Saramanga's name (The Man with the Golden Gun). Maps have been created for many of the novels along with in-depth information concerning specific topics such as, the Moonraker bridge game and the Goldfinger golf game. In many instances, monetary amounts have been converted to their 2001 purchasing power equivalent. Differences found between published versions and the original Fleming manuscripts archived at Indiana University's Lilly Library have been noted.

Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Random House
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781409071631

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Grumpy Old Men: The Secret Diary by Stuart Prebble Pdf

To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die ... and a time to have a bloody good moan. Following the huge success of Grumpy Old Men, Stuart Prebble, writer of the highly acclaimed TV series, gives us a more in-depth look at what it's really like to be a pissed-off man of a certain age. In painstaking detail, he takes us through a year in the constantly irritated life of a Grumpy Old Man, recounting the manifold vexations and absurdities he has to put up with in the perpetual torment that we call modern living. Drinks parties, holidays, hospital visits, his children's misdemeanours, buying presents for the wife, watching television, attempts to visit the gym, trips to the shops, the trials and tribulations of everyday life - each event has something to tip him over the edge. Stuart's diary proves that grumpiness is not just an occasional mood or a temporary feeling, but a way of looking at the world, and will strike a chord with all those who are proud to call themselves Grumpy Old Men.