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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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.

"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... Read Full Overview

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In 1927, at a hotel on the Italian Riviera, a hundred windows watch everything that happens on the gravel below, which is precisely Elizabeth Bowen's subject. The Hotel is a comedy of manners with a knife inside it: bridge tables, gossiping mothers, an engagement announced... Read Full Overview

"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... Read Full Overview