# The Grand Babylon Hotel — Character guide

> Key figures in The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett.

- [Theodore Racksole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/theodore_racksole.md): Racksole is a self-made American who has never been beaten and takes the credit even when luck hands him an opening. Buying the hotel began as a whim over a badly cooked steak, but the presence of the princes of Posen ro
- [Nella Racksole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/nella_racksole.md): Nella moves through the Grand Babylon with the assurance of someone who always gets what she wants and insists it has nothing to do with her father's dollars. She and Prince Aribert share a charged history from a rainy a
- [Prince Aribert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/prince_aribert.md): Aribert is a young man of sane, healthy instincts who can think of nothing but Nella's loveliness even when he means to discuss affairs of State. He insists no one at the hotel know he was in Paris last spring, and he br
- [Prince Eugen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/prince_eugen.md): Eugen arrives at the hotel already entangled in something dangerous, and his rescue from Jules, Rocco, and Miss Spencer only deepens the mystery rather than closing it. Racksole, having taken up arms on the princes' side
- [Jules](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/jules.md): Jules is the dark and tempestuous career at the center of the hotel's criminal machinery, a man whose cleverness and ingenuity seem almost admirable until they aren't. He flees across the roof by main strength and a fire
- [Félix Babylon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/felix_babylon.md): Babylon built the hotel's kitchens into a wonder of Europe and keeps himself as carefully curated as his Louis XV room. He refuses to be party to a middleman's secret profit, and he agrees to sell to Racksole only on the
- [Sampson Levi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/sampson_levi.md): Levi is a Stock Exchange speculator rich enough to hire out the Grand Babylon's Gold Room for a thousand guests, yet obscure enough that no one can tell Racksole who he really is. His opulent hospitality and his wife's d
- [Miss Spencer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/miss_spencer.md): Miss Spencer presides over the hotel's official lair, dispensing Bradshaw knowledge and telephone calls while never travelling or going to a music-hall herself. She shares Jules's contempt for Theodore Racksole's 'Angel 
- [Rocco](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/rocco.md): Rocco is the hotel's supreme artist of gastronomy, a lean, graceful celebrity whom rival hotels have failed to poach and who never deigns to appear in his own kitchens. Yet Racksole, hidden behind woodwork, watches him p
- [Reginald Dimmock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/reginald_dimmock.md): Dimmock is dead before he is properly introduced, his body laid out on the table of a suite meant only for Royal blood while Rocco works over it with sinister calm. The flashlight that exposes his features to Racksole's 
- [George Hazell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/george_hazell.md): Hazell belongs to the loose network of watchers and agents circling the hotel's mysteries, present in the Royal apartments where so much of the novel's ceremonial and clandestine action unfolds. His role is bound up with
- [Tom Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/tom_jackson.md): Tom Jackson — otherwise Jules, erstwhile head waiter — has the bearing of a gentleman and the methods of a conspirator, holding Nella captive aboard a yacht with a discreet crew and no Miss Spencer in sight. He parries h
- [Hans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/hans.md): An old servant or employee at the hotel.
- [Baroness Zerlinski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/baroness_zerlinski.md): A mysterious baroness who visits the hotel briefly.
- [Mr. Hubbard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_grand_babylon_hotel_se/characters/hubbard.md): A singular and mysterious man who appears at the hotel.

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