FRIENDS AND RELATIONS, of all Elizabeth Bowen's novels, is perhaps the most personal and the most domestic. This is a view of life in a moneyed upper-middle class enjoying its sunset of prosperity, security and complacency - and by no means free from triviality. But its very narrowness is rich in co
Friends and Relations
β Scribed by Stables, Mira
- Publisher
- Endeavour Media
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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