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Ludwig Bemelmans Hotel Bemelmans.(Book Review)
Ludwig Bemelmans Hotel Bemelmans. Overlook, 302 pages, $24.95
Lugwig Bemelmans is best known for his Madeline books. But he is also a dazzling writer on the demimonde. Bemelmans was the sort of expatriate who never let reality get in the way of imagination. As a youth he left his home in the Tyrol (after shooting a waiter), boarded a ship for America (believing it full of Indians), and landed in various jobs at the old New York Ritz--the thinly veiled "Hotel Splendide" of these stories. Overlook ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 28, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES All hail the new Ludwig Bemelmans book, Hotel Bemelmans (Overlook, $24.95, 302 pages). Yes, that Bemelmans, the writer dead these 42 years and the one best known for his "Madeline...
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- Magazine article from: American Scholar January 1, 1999 700+ words
...boudoir upholstery. Her coat covered her shoes and a wide fur piece her neck, and even in the middle of winter she wore immense garden hats that were as elaborate as wedding cakes. --LUDWIG BEMELMANS Hotel Splendide, 1941 I know some w
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- Reference information from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger January 1, 1995 700+ words
...Class (1938), At Your Service (1941), Hotel Splendide (1941), I Love You, I Love You, I Love You (1942), and Hotel Bemelmans (1946). His novels include Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (1943), about the travels of an Ecuadorian general; Dirty Eddie...
