The Grand Babylon Hotel

  • Author: Arnold Bennett
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

Synopsis

The protagonists are an American millionaire, Theodore Racksole, and his daughter Nella. While staying at the supremely exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel, Nella asks for a steak and Bass beer for dinner, but the order is refused. To get her what she wants Racksole buys the entire hotel, for four hundred thousand pounds and a guinea. Shortly after the acquisition strange things start happening in the hotel.