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The Heat of the Day (Twentieth Century Classics) by Bowen, Elizabeth is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. Stella Rodney is one of those who chose to stay. But for her, the sense of impending catastrophe becomes acutely personal when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of selling secrets to the enemy, and that the
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140018448
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary, Contemporary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.46 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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