Elizabeth Bowen

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1938
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • The Death of the Heart

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    Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the...

  • A World of Love

    In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand of emotional and psychological depth.In A Worl...

  • Eva Trout; or, Changing Scenes

    Her fictitious lives have to be read to be believed, yet as they happen they seem perfectly plausible, almost terrifyingly inevitable. The girl is quite beautiful, tall, with a kind of Garbo-like way of walking and moving and wearing her clothes. She...

  • The Little Girls

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    In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings the women reluctan...

  • The Heat of the Day

    In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd ...

  • The House in Paris

    When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother’s. Little does Henrietta know what fascinations the Fisher hous...

  • To the North

    A young woman’s secret love affair leads to a violent and tragic act in one of Elizabeth Bowen’s most acclaimed novels. To the North centers on two young women in 1920s London, the recently widowed Cecilia Summers and her late husband's sister, E...

  • The Hotel

    Glittering brightly, it lay like a luxurious jewel on the opulent Riviera -- the perfect adornment for Sydney Warren. Lovely and enigmatic Sydney, who certainly was dangerous and might well be profoundly evil, yet who drew to her all the very wealthy...

  • Friends and Relations

    Elizabeth Bowen’s deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples’ peaceful lives as a long-conc...



  • The Last September

    The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir R...

  • The Shelbourne Hotel

    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 th...

  • The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

    Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of twentieth-century writers equally through her short fiction. This co...

  • The Bazaar and Other Stories

    Toward the end of her life, Elizabeth Bowen claimed that "a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible." Playing with a range of circumstances -- broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime -- the stories in this ...

  • The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

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  • A Different Sound

    Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland -- many being published in America for the first timeThese remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth Bowen has published 16 books.

Elizabeth Bowen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Different Sound, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart, was published in January 1938.

No. Elizabeth Bowen does not write books in series.
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