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A Time in Rome by Elizabeth Bowen
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics
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
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Category: Classics | 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: Classics
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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | 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.
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