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Grand hotel
- Title
- Grand hotel / Vicki Baum ; translated from the German by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo ; introduction by Noah Isenberg.
- Author
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-3444 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xvi, 270 pages; 21 cm
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Menschen im Hotel. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Menschen im Hotel.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Note
- Originally published as Menschen im Hotel in Berlin in 1929.--Page vii.
- Language (note)
- Translated to English from the German.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-3444
- ISBN
- 9781590179673
- 1590179676
- LCCN
- 2015037856
- OCLC
- 925426515
- Author
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960, author.
- Title
- Grand hotel / Vicki Baum ; translated from the German by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo ; introduction by Noah Isenberg.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Language
- Translated to English from the German.
- Connect to:
- Cover image 9781590179673.jpg
- Added Author
- Creighton, Basil, translator.Dembo, Margot Bettauer, translator.Isenberg, Noah William, writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960. Grand hotel. New York : NYRB Classics, 2016 9781590179680 (DLC) 2015040996
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-3444