The Hotel

by Elizabeth Bowen

Overview

A sapphic affair simmers beneath the surface of Elizabeth Bowen's captivating first novel, which explores the social norms, personal identity, and subtle dynamics among the wealthy British guests of a luxurious seaside hotel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486852843
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	04/17/2024
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

ELIZABETH BOWEN was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. Her book Bowen's Court (1942) is the history of her family and their house in County Cork. Throughout her life, she divided her time between London and Bowen's Court, which she inherited. She wrote many acclaimed novels and short story collections, was awarded the CBE in 1948, and was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973.

Table of Contents

1. Quarrel
2. Sydney
3. Late for Lunch
4. Bathroom
5. Picnic
6. The Kiss
7. Out of Order
8. In the Drawing-Room
9. My Little Boy
10. Mr. Milton
11. The Dance
12. Any Hope?
13. Cemetery
14. Music
15. Lucid
16. Villa
17. Pâtisserie
18. I Do Want To
19. Tea-Garden
20. Mrs. Kerr
21. Valley
22. Rather Afraid
23. Next Corner
24. Kindness
25. Going Away

Editorial Reviews

A writer of genius. . . . Bowen’s very first novel shows in bud her later sophistication, relentless eye, stern judgment, sense of comedy.” —London Review of Books
 
“If there is anything to the catchphrase ‘felt life,’ it is here—in Elizabeth Bowen’s munificence of detail, the fine closeness of the atmosphere which she creates.” —Peter Ackroyd

“[Bowen] is in the first rank of the brilliant women writers.” —The New York Times

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