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Title	:	The Death of the Heart
Author	:	Elizabeth Bowen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 418 pages
Published	:	May 9th 2000 by Anchor Books (first published 1938)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Romance. Literature. 20th Century

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

Paperback | Pages: 418 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 6379 Users | 487 Reviews

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The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations.

In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the thirties, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home in London. There she encounters the attractive, carefree cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once child and woman, and he fears her gushing love. To her, Eddie is the only reason to be alive. But when Eddie follows Portia to a sea-side resort, the flash of a cigarette lighter in a darkened cinema illuminates a stunning romantic betrayal—and sets in motion one of the most moving and desperate flights of the heart in modern literature.

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Original Title:	The Death of the Heart
ISBN:	0385720173 (ISBN13: 9780385720175)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eddie, Portia Quayne, Thomas Quayne, Anna Quayne, Matchett, St. Quentin Miller, Daphne Heccomb, Dickie Heccomb, Mrs. Heccomb
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)

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Happy that few of us are aware of the world until we are already in league with itThe story covers a period of some six months in which a newly orphaned 16 year old comes to live with her half brother and his wife. There she keeps a diary, becomes infatuated with another slightly older but still youngish lad, finds he is not quite the boy she had hoped or imagined and gets a bit upset.Not much more happens then this really and yet i find myself giving it four stars, encouraging you to read it

I need to solve a mystery: all conspiracy theories welcome. Where exactly is the Kentish seaside town of Seale-on-Sea? It features in three of Bowens novels, prominently in The Death of the Heart and not at all on Google maps. The only Seal in Kent has these are its coordinates:http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&a...With the best will in the world, there is NO way Mrs Heccomb and Portia leave Waikiki House on the shore and trundle onto THIS Seal High Street for Bisureated Magnesia Tablets and a

Anna and I live the only way we can, and it quite likely may not stand up to examination.Thomas and Anna Quayne are both vacuous individuals, living ineffectual and unexceptional lives, surrounded by an equally docile set of acquaintances, all bound by the strictures and conventions of their class and its narrow horizons. From the outside we may seem worthless, Anna suggests, shaken from her torpor, as, finally, a modicum of self knowledge appears to be dawning, and the story reaches its

Here is the story in a nutshell. Portia becomes an orphan at the age of sixteen. She has a married half-brother living in London, Thomas and his wife Anna. He is thirty-six and she twenty-six. Is Portia welcomed by them? No, not really. To one she is an embarrassment. To the other an encumbrance, a nuisance, but of course they agree to take her in for a year. It is the proper thing to do. The plan is to then send her off to a maternal aunt. The story concerns what happens during this year. The

Oh, did this book (written in 1938) hit me hard. In fact my emotions are still churning, and I went to multiple websites looking at character studies and reviews: Ive never found such disparate opinions on a book before. I completely disagree with most of them. What I find singular, is that there are so many different experiences to be had within one book.First, if you are a woman (Im not saying this is ONLY a book for women) I want you to read this. If you have travelled into the season of late

The Death of the Heart -- a pretty melodramatic title, don't you think? I mean, I was expecting a torturous, ruinous love affair. Instead I got a sixteen year old whose auntie read her diary. Still, I enjoyed the story a great deal. The recently orphaned Portia goes to live with her half-brother and his disapproving wife. There she meets a cruel character who wins her heart then tosses her out with the rubbish once she has become too needy. It doesn't take much to win her heart, however. Needy

"There is no ordinary life" is what our poor naif Portia learns about society. She's like that Nell lady, born in the wilderness and sent suddenly into society without even a language to speak. Her education is brutal. Upon her parents' death, she's sent to live with half-brother Thomas, 20 years her senior, and his wife Anna. They are sociopaths. Portia doesn't know what society is like, but society doesn't know what humans are like. "However much of a monster you may be," says Thomas to