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The Heat of the Day is a novel by Anglo-Irish Elizabeth Bowen, first published in 1948 in the United Kingdom, and in 1949 in the United States of America. The Heat of the Day revolves around the relationship between Stella Rodney and her lover Robert Kelway, with the interfering presence of Harrison in the tense years following the ...
- Elizabeth Bowen
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The Heat of the Day, novel by Elizabeth Bowen, published in 1949, about the ramifications of an Englishwoman’s discovery that her lover is a spy for the Axis Powers. The novel is set in London during World War II and concerns the lovers Stella and Robert, who both work for the British secret.
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13 ago 2015 · The Heat of the Day. Elizabeth Bowen. 3.40. 2,518 ratings327 reviews. In The Heat of the Day , Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II. Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis.
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5 set 2023 · Last Updated September 5, 2023. Set in London, England, and Ireland during World War II, Elizabeth Bowen’s novel is concerned with the moral and ethical dilemmas that people face during wartime.
17 gen 2017 · Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.225410dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-10T15:30:02Zdc.date.available:...
The Heat of the Day is famous for being Elizabeth Bowen’s London wartime novel, though she wrote other novels set in London, and several of her best short stories deal, sometimes as ghost stories, with the strange hiatus amid the continuities which characterised London life during and just after the Blitz.
In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II. Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis.
