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The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period. It is about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law.
- Elizabeth Bowen
- 1938
The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period. It is about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law.
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May 14, 1998 · Ironic comedy as well as tragedy, The Death of the Heart tells a story as old as wickedness: the world's betrayal of innocence ― TIME Magazine, 1939. Bowen had a genius for conveying the reader straight into the most powerful and complex regions of the heart ― New York Times.
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- Elizabeth Bowen
The Death of the Heart, novel by Elizabeth Bowen, published in 1938. It is one of Bowen’s best-known works and demonstrates her debt to Henry James in the careful observation of detail and the theme of innocence darkened by experience.
- Elizabeth Bowen
- 1938
Summary. 'One of the best novels about a young woman that I’ve ever read' Greta Gerwig. When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie.
Complete summary of Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Death of the Heart.
May 14, 1998 · Ironic comedy as well as tragedy, The Death of the Heart tells a story as old as wickedness: the world's betrayal of innocence - TIME Magazine, 1939. Bowen had a genius for conveying the reader straight into the most powerful and complex regions of the heart - New York Times.
