Hotel Splendide
Book - 2022
"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 m̋atre d'̥htel 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."
- Subjects
- Genres
- Fiction
Short stories
Essays
Humor
Autobiographies
Biographies
Creative nonfiction - Published
-
London :
Pushkin Press
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "...first published in 1941"--title page verso.
- Physical Description
- 191 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- ISBN
- 9781782277910
- 1. The Animal Waiter
- 2. Art at the Hotel Splendide
- 3. The Lost Mandolin
- 4. Easy Money
- 5. Kalakobé
- 6. A Night in Granada
- 7. The Hispano
- 8. The Homesick Bus Boy
- 9. The New Suit
- 10. The Ballet Visits the Magician
- 11. The Magician Does a New Trick
- 12. The Dreams of the Magician
- 13. My Valet Lustgarten
- 14. The Banquet
- 15. The Murderer of the Splendide