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A Novel of Quality
van Doren, Dorothy | April 1, 1936 issue

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In this article, the author focuses on the book "The House in Paris," by Elizabeth Bowen. Characters-not much more than half a dozen in all-are sharp and various. Undoubtedly also they suffer. But these qualities, admirable as they are, do not quite add up to the moving story that they ought to. The first and third parts of the book are laid in the present, the second part is in the past. This, it will be seen, is easily the stuff of which novels are made. Passion, frustration, grief, despair all have their place.

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HOUSE in Paris, The (Book); BOWEN, Elizabeth; EMOTIONS; FRUSTRATION; GRIEF; LITERATURE
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