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The Hotel - Elizabeth Bowen

By Elizabeth Bowen

Release Date: 2025-09-19

Genre: Literary Fiction

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Elizabeth Bowen’s first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among 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 1920s, it is a battleground for the clash of tradition and modernity. As rebellious young Sydney Warren tests the boundaries of her incomplete freedom—and becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older woman—she increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowen’s most famous novels, ''The Hotel'' depicts a collection of privileged men and women vacationers enjoying their holiday on the Italian Riviera gossiping and flirting among themselves, and intrigued by the mystery surrounding Sydney Warren. A very entertaining novel of suspense and romance.

The Hotel - Elizabeth Bowen

By Elizabeth Bowen

Release Date: 2025-09-19

Genre: Literary Fiction

(0 ratings)
Read Download
Elizabeth Bowen’s first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among 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 1920s, it is a battleground for the clash of tradition and modernity. As rebellious young Sydney Warren tests the boundaries of her incomplete freedom—and becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older woman—she increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowen’s most famous novels, ''The Hotel'' depicts a collection of privileged men and women vacationers enjoying their holiday on the Italian Riviera gossiping and flirting among themselves, and intrigued by the mystery surrounding Sydney Warren. A very entertaining novel of suspense and romance.

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