num_pages: 269
description: One of Elizabeth Bowen’s most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Paris is a timeless masterpiece of nuance and construction, and represents the very best of Bowen’s celebrated work. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother’s. Little does Henrietta know what fascinations the Fisher house itself contains–along with secrets that have the potential to topple a marriage and redeem the life of a peculiar young boy. By the time Henrietta leaves the house that evening, she is in possession of the kind of grave knowledge that is usually reserved only for adults.
language: English
title: The House in Paris
titlecomplete: The House in Paris
characters: Mme. Fisher, Karen Michaelis, Mr. Michaelis, Ray Forrestier, Mrs. Arbuthnot, Henrietta Mountjoy, Mrs. Michaelis, Leopold (The House in Paris), Uncle Bill, Aunt Violet, Naomi Fisher, Max Ebhart
genres: Classics, British Literature, France, Ireland, Irish Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 2277
places: France
publisher: Anchor