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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: 3.62 · 28,179 ratings · 3,497 reviews · 207 distinct works • Similar authors
The Death of the Heart
3.64 avg rating — 9,108 ratings — published 1938 — 91 editions
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The Last September
3.45 avg rating — 3,673 ratings — published 1929 — 64 editions
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The House in Paris
3.72 avg rating — 2,680 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
3.58 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 1941 — 10 editions
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To the North
3.69 avg rating — 619 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
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 2025 New School Poll


The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (1929) 303 pages.
 
  42 votes, 23.2%

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi (1975) 233 pages
 
  37 votes, 20.4%

 
  29 votes, 16.0%

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (1992) 480 pages
 
  22 votes, 12.2%

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (1940) 216 pages
 
  21 votes, 11.6%

Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) by Connie Willis (1982) 578 pages
 
  19 votes, 10.5%

The Atom Station by Halldór Laxness (1948) 192 pages.
 
  11 votes, 6.1%

181 total votes
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