The Death of the Heart

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The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen that explores adolescent innocence, emotional betrayal, and the complexities of upper-middle-class life in interwar London.

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instanceOf literary work
novel
adaptationMedium television
adaptationYear 1980s
author Elizabeth Bowen NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
followedBy The Heat of the Day NERFINISHED
genre coming-of-age novel
modernist novel
psychological fiction
hasAdaptation television film
hasForm prose
hasISBN 9780385720175
hasMedium print
hasPageCountApprox 400
hasReception critical acclaim
hasStructure three-part structure
hasSubject class consciousness
coming of age of a young girl
emotional repression
family relationships
illegitimacy
isNotableFor depiction of interwar London society
detailed psychological characterization
literaryMovement modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainCharacter Anna Quayne NERFINISHED
Eddie NERFINISHED
Portia Quayne NERFINISHED
Thomas Quayne NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
partOfAuthorOeuvre Elizabeth Bowen novels
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
precededBy The House in Paris NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1938
publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd NERFINISHED
settingLocation London, England
surface form: London
settingPeriod interwar period
settingTime 1930s
theme adolescent innocence
disillusionment
emotional betrayal
loneliness
social hypocrisy
upper-middle-class life
titleCharacterAge 16

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Elizabeth Bowen notableWork The Death of the Heart