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Hotel Splendide / Ludwig Bemelmans.
LIBRA - Rare PS3503.E475 H6 1941
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1941.
- Summary:
- Fantastic incidences and an inside view of the lives of bus boys, waiters, dish washers, and the maitres d'hotel of that imaginary institution designed as the Hotel Splendide.
- Contents:
- The animal waiter
- Art at the Hotel Splendide
- The lost mandolin
- Easy money
- Kalakobé
- A night in Granada
- The Hispano
- The homesick bus boy
- The new suit
- The ballet visits the magician
- The magician does a new trick
- The dreams of the magician
- My valet Lustgarten
- The banquet
- The murderer of the Splendide.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- "Some of this material first appeared in The New Yorker ..."--Title page verso.
- OCLC:
- 399971
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