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Elizabeth Bowen


Born
in Dublin, Ireland
June 07, 1899

Died
February 22, 1973

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London. ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 30,093 ratings · 3,869 reviews · 213 distinct works • Similar authors
The Death of the Heart
3.63 avg rating — 9,738 ratings — published 1938 — 93 editions
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The Last September
3.45 avg rating — 3,909 ratings — published 1929 — 68 editions
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The House in Paris
3.72 avg rating — 2,847 ratings — published 1935 — 76 editions
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The Heat of the Day
3.39 avg rating — 3,014 ratings — published 1948 — 16 editions
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The Demon Lover
3.57 avg rating — 839 ratings — published 1941 — 12 editions
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To the North
3.68 avg rating — 656 ratings — published 1932 — 29 editions
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Eva Trout
3.42 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 1968 — 43 editions
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A World of Love
3.37 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 1955
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The Collected Stories
4.01 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 1981 — 29 editions
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The Hotel
3.38 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 1927 — 43 editions
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“Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
tags: book, dialogue, introspective, sad
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“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
tags: humor, men, romance
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“But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.”
― Elizabeth Bowen
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Polls

November 2017 New School Poll

 
  80 votes, 28.4%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages, 1969
 
  61 votes, 21.6%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  30 votes, 10.6%

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard, 351 pages, 1984
 
  23 votes, 8.2%

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, 256 pages, 1927
 
  21 votes, 7.4%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pages, 1990
 
  21 votes, 7.4%

 
  20 votes, 7.1%

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 318 pages, 1987
 
  12 votes, 4.3%

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen, 372 pages, 1948
 
  7 votes, 2.5%

 
  7 votes, 2.5%

282 total votes
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