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A Different Sound - Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Elizabeth Bowen; Daphne du Maurier; Elizabeth Taylor; Lucy Scholes (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
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Category: Fiction | 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
A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
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Category: Fiction
A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads a young girl into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a group of people held together by odd ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner who was killed in France a ...Show more
COLLECTED STORIES by BOWEN ELIZABETH
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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 Elizabeth Bowen
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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
The Death of the Heart by BOWEN ELIZABETH
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Category: 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
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
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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 House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
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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 Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen: Selected and Introduced by Tessa Hadley by Elizabeth Bowen
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Category: 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
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