By Chryssa Marinou Elizabeth Bowen’s 1923 short story entitled “Salon des Dames” offers a view of the hotel space in the aftermath of World War…
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by Athanasios Dimakis Anthony Trollope and Amelia Edwards at the Cairo Shepheard’s Colonial hotels like the Cairo Shepheard’s foreground the centrality of grand hotels in…
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By Athanasios Dimakis In “VI The Future” of Paris Nights: And Other Impressions of Places and People, Arnold Bennett underscores the opulence and sparkle…
admin23/12/2020
by Chryssa Marinou The travelogue was originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly. James tours several…
admin01/09/2020
By Athanasios Dimakis The Cavafy archive is constituted by a large number of manuscripts, makeshift collections of poems and prose works, articles, drafts and notes…
admin21/08/2020
by Chryssa Marinou Michail Mitsakis (c. 1868 – 1916) first published his short story “Αυτόχειρ” (“By His Own Hand”) in the newspaper Acropolis in…
admin27/05/2020
By Chryssa Marinou “In the world of hotels it was currently stated that, next to the proprietor, there were three gods at the Grand Babylon…
admin16/05/2020
"At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is…
admin02/05/2020
"The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold antiqua letters…
admin23/04/2020
