Elizabeth Bowen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations.
In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the thirties, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous...
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1936.
Language
English
Description
One of Elizabeth Bowen's most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Paris is a timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere, and represents the very best of Bowen's celebrated oeuvre. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother's. Henrietta longs to see a few sights in the foreign city; little...
10) The hotel
Author
Publisher
L. MacVeagh, the Dial Press
Pub. Date
1928.
Language
English
Description
Group of English people in a winter resort on the Riviera figure in this story which, in its dialogue, is high comedy, in its underlying motive, a futile tragedy.
17) The little girls
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Three aging English ladies attempt, literally and figuratively, to dig up the secret of their childhood, but find only their own damaged selves.