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The Grand Babylon Hotel

Arnold Bennett

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Paper book: €24.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1902
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
544
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Adventure
Moods
Solve a mystery, Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

One June evening in London, the American millionaire Theodore Racksole dines with his daughter Nella at the Grand Babylon, the smartest hotel in town. The head waiter refuses to serve them steak and beer, which he thinks unworthy of the house: Racksole buys the hotel that very evening. He soon discovers that its corridors hide a disappearance and a plot involving European princes.

A humorous adventure novel in which a businessman leads the investigation himself, helped by his daughter Nella, who is as bold as he is.

Fast-paced and full of twists, the novel is a pleasure to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

ステーキのためにホテルを買ったアメリカ人。ロンドンの高級ホテルで、大金持ちのアメリカ人セオドア・ラックソールが娘のネラと食事をしている。ところがホテルは、ステーキを出すのを断る。

The world of the book

ロンドンで最も格式あるホテル。グランド・バビロンは、ロンドンのテムズ川のほとりに建つ。王や王子たちが泊まり、王族専用の入口まである。看板はなく、ここで値段を口にする者は誰もいない。料理長は大使のように丁重に扱われる。事件の調査は海を越え、ベルギーのオーステンデにまで及ぶ。

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