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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

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Description for The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen Paperback. Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, and of London during the Blitz. Num Pages: 896 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 49. Weight in Grams: 614.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON

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 affirms in his introduction, that 'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099287735
SKU
V9780099287735
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of shorts stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1926) was her first ... Read more

Reviews for The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Bowen's stories show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul
Anne Tyler
Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them
V.S. Pritchett
Vogue

Goodreads reviews for The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen


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