<p><b>''Bowen''s stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them'' <i>Vogue</i></b><br><br><b>SELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY</b><br><br>A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies'' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil.<br><br>Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen''s finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen''s ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen''s native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz.<br><br>Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and
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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.
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Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.
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From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist...
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<p>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY<br><br>Imposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a ''capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her'' that is endless....
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