United States, New York (State)--New York, Businesspeople, Businessmen, Hotels 

The rise and fall of a man of imagination. From a helper in his grandfather's cigar store in 19th Century New York, he rises to become an entrepreneur of fabulous creations, culminating in a hotel with moonlight, waterfalls and a Grecian temple where maidens recite poetry around the clock. Facing ruin, he comes to the conclusion he dreamed the wrong dream. By the author of Edwin Mullhouse. 

Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Millhauser, Steven.
Martin Dressler.
New York : Crown, ©1996
(OCoLC)603843361
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Steven Millhauser
ISBN: 051770319X 9780517703199 0679781277 9780679781271
OCLC Number: 34150504
Awards: Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1997.
Description: viii, 294 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Dressler's cigars and tobacco --
Charley Stratemeyer --
West Brighton --
The Vanderlyn Hotel --
Room 411 --
A business venture --
Little Alice Bell --
Advancement --
The paradise musée --
Caroline and Emmeline Vernon --
A Sunday afternoon stroll --
The radiator --
Intimacies --
The eighth day of the week --
Mr. Westerhoven makes a proposal --
Business and pleasure --
Courtship --
The blue velvet box --
Wedding night --
The fate of the Vanderlyn --
New life --
Rudolf Arling --
Harwinton --
The Dressler --
A fifth chair at dinner --
The new Dressler --
Caroline's way --
The grand cosmo.
Responsibility: Steven Millhauser.