num_pages: 240
description: Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen; Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her sad unfulfilled daughter flutters hopelessly round her ... Slowly exposing the apprehensions of the children and the reasons for their presence in the house, Elizabeth Bowen releases all her psychological insight, her charmed prose and unerring feel for atmosphere into a masterpiece of delicacy and restraint.
language: English
title: The House in Paris
titlecomplete: The House in Paris
characters: Aunt Violet, Ray Forrestier, Max Ebhart, Mrs. Michaelis, Uncle Bill, Henrietta Mountjoy, Mr. Michaelis, Mrs. Arbuthnot, Karen Michaelis, Naomi Fisher, Leopold (The House in Paris), Mme. Fisher
genres: Fiction, Ireland, France, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2277
places: France
publisher: Penguin Books