- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (6 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099284758
- ISBN-13: 978-0099284758
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 606,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The worlds Bowen creates are so immediately absorbing, the glimpses she allows us of the eccentricities of other people's relationships so fascinating, that one cannot help wanting more.' Selina Hastings
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These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The English, liberated from one long war and not yet faced with the next had - at least when well-off- a confident kind of vitality. 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. Elizabeth Bowen's wit, and her exact eye for social detail has often been compared to that of Jane Austen, and the similarity is perfectly captured in this, Elizabeth Bowen's first novel. (20020220)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Charming and very much of its period
5 May 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The novel's storyline is fairly divided among several well-to-do British guests staying at a hotel on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s--mostly concerned with the subtle nuances of their emotional interactions with one another, the narrative eventually comes to settle on the neurotic Sydney (a young travelling companion to an invalid cousin) who has become overly attached to the beautiful and manipulative Mrs. Kerr.
Though is far from Bowen's best, this is a wonderful read for anyone who has enjoyed the many novels of this period cocerning genteel Englishmen abroad--Forster's ROOM WITH A VIEW, von Arnim's THE ENCHANTED APRIL, and Woolf's THE VOYAGE OUT. The style is deceptive: you can get much more out of this on a second read than the first time round.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Bowen's Marvelous "Hotel"
23 Sep 2008
Format:Paperback
I can't imagine anyone will see this, but if there is someone still interested in Elizabeth Bowen and particularly her first novel, "The Hotel," I should think it a shame were they put off by some of the negative comments one sees here. The Hotel has wit, intensity and an exquisiteness of description that is most unusual. The relations amongst the guests at the hotel are drawn humorously and with great subtlety. The Hotel is a first rate novel of manners which I found fascinating.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good introductory Bowen novel
23 Dec 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Not the greatest novel in the world, but a good introduction if you would like to read Bowen. The lack of any real resolution to the plot is kind of disheartening and leaves the reader with a feeling of nothing being accomplished. Bowen writes about subtle emotions well, but throws out too many at the reader at once. The novel seems more of an intellectual excercise in form rather than a real literary accomplishment.
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