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A Different Sound - Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Elizabeth Bowen; Daphne du Maurier; Elizabeth Taylor; Lucy Scholes (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland--many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and pro ...Show more
A Time in Rome by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its hisotry, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their oft ...Show more
Bowen's Court & Seven Winters by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Biography
In SEVEN WINTERS Elizabeth Brown recalls with endearing candour her family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyesof a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds. BOWEN'S COURT describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork ...Show more
COLLECTED STORIES by BOWEN ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affir ...Show more
EVA TROUT by BOWEN ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, a character study of startling originality which many consider to be her best work WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY Imposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' ...Show more
Elizabeth Bowen - Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen; John Banville (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, a character study of startling originality which many consider to be her best workWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYImposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that ...Show more
HOUSE IN PARIS by BOWEN ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction
A timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere that represents the very best of Bowen's work. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.S. BYATT When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her ...Show more
Selected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen
Category: Short Stories
SELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY A teacher dreams of killing her pupil. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A ruined family sells their belongings. A girl shares her secret den. Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stor ...Show more
THE DEATH OF THE HEART by BOWEN ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction
As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen offers the piercing story of innocence betrayed at a 1930s British seaside resort. "One of the finest, one of the deepest . . . of contemporary English novels."--"Saturday Review."
The Death of the Heart by BOWEN ELIZABETH
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evide ...Show more