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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 games, picnics, and idle gossip. But for the young women of the s, facing a dearth of young men after the first World Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, run for prosperous English visitors. It was a closed world of wealth and a setting for the inexhaustible comedy of casual personal relationships among a variety of 'nice' people, all English, all wittily reflected with characteristic vivacity/5(26). The Hotel is Elizabeth Bowen’s first novel, published in , the same year that Virginia Woolf published To t ”An hotel, you know, is a great place for friendships.” “Mustn’t that be,” said Ronald, “what people come out for?”/5(60).

The Shelbourne. Elizabeth Bowen takes us on a tour through the history of the famous Dublin landmark, the Shelbourne Hotel, in this evocative account of Irish life. Looking out on Dublin as if from the windows of the Shelbourne, and then turning inward to witness the impact of events on the hotel, its guests and staff, Bowen paints a picture of. The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen starting at $ The Hotel has 7 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. The Hotel, by Elizabeth Bowen, published by Lincoln MacVeagh, New York, in , is a first edition. A very entertaining novel of romance, suspense, etc. The book is in very good condition. Boards (black, with plate on spine), spine, pages and hinges are in very good condition. DJ, orange, with purple lettering, has a few small tears on fringes.

The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, run for prosperous English visitors. It was a closed world of wealth and a setting for the inexhaustible comedy of casual personal relationships among a variety of 'nice' people, all English, all wittily reflected with characteristic vivacity. The Hotel - Elizabeth Bowen - 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 games, picnics, and idle. 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 games, picnics, and idle gossip.