![]() ![]() The contents are tight and clean with a small old price written in blue ball-point ink on the top corner of the front free endpaper. ![]() tags: betrayal, fidelity, power, realization. There is a little wear to the titling on the spine. One's sentiments - call them that - one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling on the boards. People were so conscious of themselves, and of each other, and of their personal relationships because they thought that everything of that time might soon end." The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. Bowen called it a 'pre-war' novel, "a novel which reflects the time, the pre-war time with its high tension, its increasing anxieties, and this great stress on individualism. 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. The Death of the Heart is a novel set in the interwar period. ![]() Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer, notable for her fiction about life in wartime London. ![]()
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