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The Shelbourne

The Shelbourne

Elizabeth Bowen

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2017
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Historia social y cultural
ISBN:
9780099284857
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Elizabeth Bowen takes us on a tour through the history of the famous Dublin landmark the Shelbourne Hotel in this evocative account of Irish life. Looking out on Dublin as if from the windows of the Shelbourne and then turning inward to witness the impact of events on the hotel its guests and staff Bowen paints a picture of what was in the hotel’s earlier days the second city of the Empire then the battleground of Irish independence and civil strife and eventually the capital of a republic.

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