Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

The House in Paris

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Topic

Jealousy

Author

Elizabeth Bowen

Source

The House in Paris

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Bowen, Elizabeth. The House in Paris. Gollancz/Knopf, 1935.

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Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents

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Sigmund Freud
Source
Civilization and Its Discontents
Genre
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Language
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Freud, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [The Discomfort in Culture]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag Wien, 1930, pt. 8.

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Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021, pt. 8.