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The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella hers ...Show more
The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
It was an exciting time for young women of the 1920s as they embraced liberation from the pre-World War I traditions of their mothers. In the mild Mediterranean climate of the Italian Riviera, a rebellious young Sydney Warren cautiously tested her newfound freedom, developing an intimate relationship wi ...Show more
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen, and Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her daughter flutters round her. The author exposes the apprehensions of the children and the reasons for their presence in the house.
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
A picture of Anglo-Irish life at the troublesome time of 1920. The family at the "big house" are in an equivocal position. Interest and tradition should make them support the British but affection ties them to the now-resistant people of the surrounding country.
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction
"The family at the 'big house' are in an equivocal position. Interest and tradition should make them support the British but affection ties them to the now resistant people of the surrounding country. Meanwhile tennis parties and dances are still held, against a background of ambushes and burings. Young ...Show more
The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction
In 1914 they had been eleven years old - Dicey, Mumbo and Sheikie. Nearly fifty years have gone by since they met at St Agatha's, a day school on the South Coast. One of them, Dicey, a beauty to whom time has so far done little, deliberately convenes the other two - Clare, a successful career woman, and ...Show more
The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen: Selected and Introduced by Tessa Hadley by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Classic Fiction
A beautiful paperback edition of Elizabeth Bowen's short stories, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley.'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl ...Show more
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"To The North" portrays a classic romantic entanglement of a sympathetic, honest, well-meaning young woman who cannot resist becoming involved with a man who is patently caddish and predatory. In striking and richly comic contrast to the turbulence of this passion is the cool, detached atmosphere of the ...Show more
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater. Markie's appearance disrupts th ...Show more
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction
Set in London during the twenties, this fine novel centres on the lives of two young women, the recently widowed Cecilia Summers and her sister-in-law Emmeline. Cecilia, capricious and unable to really love anyone, moves reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Emmeli ...Show more