A Time in Rome

Travel writing providing an account of one Spring spent in Rome several years ago.

About the author

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of short stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1927) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973.

Summary

Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere.

Foreword

'A great writer...she is what happened after Bloomsbury...the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark' Victoria Glendinning

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Bowen
• Publisher: Random House Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780099284956
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928495-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 184 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Italy