Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen


Born
in Dublin, Ireland
June 07, 1899

Died
February 22, 1973

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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

Average rating: 3.61 · 29,023 ratings · 3,648 reviews · 216 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Death of the Heart

3.64 avg rating — 9,338 ratings — published 1938 — 18 editions
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The Last September

3.45 avg rating — 3,782 ratings — published 1929 — 64 editions
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The House in Paris

3.72 avg rating — 2,757 ratings — published 1935 — 3 editions
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The Heat of the Day

3.39 avg rating — 2,901 ratings — published 1948
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The Demon Lover

3.58 avg rating — 804 ratings — published 1941 — 10 editions
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To the North

3.68 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 1932 — 28 editions
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Eva Trout

3.42 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1968 — 38 editions
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A World of Love

3.36 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 1955 — 32 editions
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The Collected Stories

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 471 ratings — published 1981 — 29 editions
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The Hotel

3.39 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 1927 — 37 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

“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

“But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.”
Elizabeth Bowen

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October 2022 New School Classic Group Read

 
  86 votes, 37.1%

 
  35 votes, 15.1%

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 461 pages
 
  31 votes, 13.4%

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, 1996, 419 pages
 
  29 votes, 12.5%

 
  20 votes, 8.6%

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 1938, 309 pages
 
  18 votes, 7.8%

 
  13 votes, 5.6%

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