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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

为了一份牛排买下整座酒店的美国人。在伦敦,非常富有的美国人西奥多·拉克索尔和女儿内拉在一家豪华酒店用餐。酒店却拒绝为他们上牛排。

The world of the book

伦敦最高雅的酒店。大巴比伦饭店矗立在伦敦泰晤士河畔。国王和王子在此下榻,还有一扇门专供王室成员出入。酒店没有招牌,在这里也从没有人谈论价格。酒店的主厨享有大使般的待遇。调查还延伸到海峡对岸的比利时奥斯坦德。

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