Widely known for her much-admired novels, including _The Heat of the Day_ , _The House in Paris_ , and _The Death of the Heart_ , Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction. This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificen
The collected stories of Elizabeth Bowen
โ Scribed by Elizabeth Bowen
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage Digital
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 699 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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'.
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