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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: 3.62 · 28,166 ratings · 3,494 reviews · 207 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Death of the Heart

3.64 avg rating — 9,105 ratings — published 1938 — 91 editions
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The Last September

3.45 avg rating — 3,670 ratings — published 1929 — 64 editions
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The House in Paris

3.72 avg rating — 2,678 ratings — published 1935 — 76 editions
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The Heat of the Day

3.40 avg rating — 2,799 ratings — published 1948 — 73 editions
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The Demon Lover

3.57 avg rating — 773 ratings — published 1941 — 10 editions
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To the North

3.69 avg rating — 618 ratings — published 1932 — 4 editions
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Eva Trout

3.42 avg rating — 653 ratings — published 1968 — 38 editions
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A World of Love

3.35 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 1955 — 32 editions
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The Collected Stories

4.01 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 1981 — 29 editions
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The Hotel

3.39 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1927 — 35 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

Polls

February 2022 New School Classic Read Poll

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938, 178 pages
 
  58 votes, 27.6%

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946, 335 pages
 
  38 votes, 18.1%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1905, 335 pages
 
  35 votes, 16.7%

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry, 1975, 410 pages
 
  29 votes, 13.8%

To the North by Elizabeth Bowen, 1932, 320 pages
 
  20 votes, 9.5%

 
  19 votes, 9.0%

 
  11 votes, 5.2%

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