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People, Places, Things
Bowen, Elizabeth. Ed(S): Hepburn, Allan
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Paperback. This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The essays include Bowen's observations on age, toys, disappointment, writers, and manners. Editor(s): Hepburn, Allan. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602. Essays by Elizabeth Bowen. 480 pages. Editor(s): Hepburn, Allan. This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The essays include Bowen's observations on age, toys, disappointment, writers, and manners. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DNF. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 27. Weight: 602.
Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous intelligence. Always sensitive to underlying tensions, she evokes the particular climate of countries and places in "Hungary," "Prague and the Crisis," and "Bowen's Court." In "Britain in Autumn," she records the strained atmosphere of the blitz as no other writer does. Immediately after the war, she reported on the International Peace Conference in Paris in a series of essays that are startling in their evocation of tense diplomacy among international delegates scrabbling to define the boundaries of Europe and ... Read more
Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous intelligence. Always sensitive to underlying tensions, she evokes the particular climate of countries and places in "Hungary," "Prague and the Crisis," and "Bowen's Court." In "Britain in Autumn," she records the strained atmosphere of the blitz as no other writer does. Immediately after the war, she reported on the International Peace Conference in Paris in a series of essays that are startling in their evocation of tense diplomacy among international delegates scrabbling to define the boundaries of Europe and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748635696
SKU
V9780748635696
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About Bowen, Elizabeth. Ed(S): Hepburn, Allan
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was a leading Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Her writing was influenced both by Henry James and by modernist writers. She is best known for her novels of the 1930s, her war novel, The Heat of the Day (1949), and her short stories of the London Blitz. Allan Hepburn is Associate Professor of English at ... Read more
Reviews for People, Places, Things
There are delights aplenty, nowhere more so than Bowen's writing on London during World War II... Essays on Jane Austen and reading, reflections on ageing and spirited evocations of post-war European excursions provide an intriguing insight into the mind of a writer Hermione Lee called 'the spy inside the gates' of the English middle classes. Metro In these numerous essays ... Read more