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The Hotel
Elizabeth Bowen's first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled British tourists on the Italian Riviera. Their luxurious seaside hotel seems a closed and comfortable world, marked by dramas no more momentous than tennis...
The Hotel (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The Hotel
It was an exciting time for young women of the 1920s as they embraced liberation from the pre-World War I traditions of their mothers. In the mild Mediterranean climate of the Italian Riviera, a rebellious young Sydney Warren cautiously tested her newfound freedom, developing...
The Hotel
In his introduction to a collection of criticism on the Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen, Harold Bloom wrote, "What then has Bowen given us except nuance, bittersweet and intelligent? Much, much more." Born in 1899, Bowen became part of the famous Bloomsbury scene, and...
The Hotel
An awkward young woman develops an "unsuitable attachment" to a beautiful, worldly widow in a queer-coded novel set in a luxurious hotel on the Italian Riviera. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography. Sydney...
The Hotel
It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of social niceties,...
Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel
The Hotel
"The Hotel" is the debut novel by the celebrated Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen, offering a sophisticated and sharp-witted exploration of the English upper-middle class at leisure. Set in a grand hotel on the picturesque Italian Riviera during the 1920s, the narrative...
The Hotel
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