description: 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.
language: English
title: The Hotel
titlecomplete: The Hotel
characters: Mrs. Hillier, Violet Bransome, Mrs. Lee-Mittison, Joan Lawrence, Cordelia Barry, Louisa Pinkerton, Eleanor Pym, Rosina Pinkerton, Victor Ammering, Mrs. Kerr, Veronica Lawrence, Colonel Duperrier, Tessa Bellamy, Herbert Lee-Mittison, Ronald Kerr, James Milton, Eileen Lawrence, Sydney Warren, Emily Fitzgerald
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, LGBT, Classics, Ireland, British Literature, Irish Literature, Italy, Travel, Novels
ratings_count: 340
places: Italian Riviera, Italy
publisher: Vintage Uk