The Shelbourne

London: Harrup, 1951.

Price: $37.00

Hardcover. First edition. About Very good in near Very good dustwrapper. Book has rubs at spine ends, stains/fading at top edges. Dustwrapper has rubs/small chips at spine ends and corners, soili. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Item #165445

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Elizabeth Bowen
birth name: Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
born: 6/7/1899
died: 2/22/1973
nationality: Great Britain

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Biography

British novelist and short-story writer who employed a finely wrought prose style in fiction frequently detailing uneasy and unfulfilling relationships among the upper middle class. The Death of the Heart (1938), the title of one of her most highly praised novels, might have served for most of them. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore