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Grand hotel / Vicki Baum ; translated from the German by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo ; introduction by Noah Isenberg.
Van Pelt Library PT2603.A815 M413 2016
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960, author.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Menschen im Hotel. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Hotels.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Hotels--Germany--Berlin--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 270 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, and Gaigern, a sleek professional thief, who may or may not be made for each other. Herr Preysing also checks in, the director of a family firm that isn't as flourishing as it appears, who would never imagine that Kringelein, his underling, a timorous petty clerk he's bullied for years, has also come to Berlin, determined to live at last now that he's received a medical death sentence. All these characters and more, with their secret fears and hopes, come together and come alive in the pages of Baum's delicious and disturbing masterpiece"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960. Grand hotel.
- ISBN:
- 9781590179673
- 1590179676
- OCLC:
- 925426515
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