Elizabeth Bowen
Collected Stories
$52.38
- Hardcover
904 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2019
Summary
A beautiful hardback edition of the collected stories of one of the best short-story writers ever, with a new introduction by John Banville.
A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction - ‘the supreme genius of her time’, writes John Banville in his introduction; ‘There is not a story in this substantial volume … that is not brought off beautifully.’
A substantial volume indeed, including 79 stories written o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593920 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593923 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Bowen, John Banville |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 904 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 797g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 134mm x 41mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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She is a major writer; her name should appear on any responsible list of the ten most important fiction writers in English on this side of the Atlantic in this century. She is what happened after Bloomsbury … the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Irish Murdoch and Muriel Spark. – Victoria GlendinningBowen’s stories show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul. – Anne TylerBowen’s stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them. – V. S. Pritchett
About The Author
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. She was educated at Downe House School in Kent. Her book Bowen’s Court (1942) is the history of her family and their house in County Cork, and Seven Winters (1943) contains reminiscences of her Dublin childhood. In 1923 she married Alan Cameron, who held an appointment with the BBC and who died in 1952. She travelled a good deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen’s Court, which she inherited.
Elizabeth Bowen is considered by many to be one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century. Her first book, a collection of short stories, Encounters, appeared in 1923, followed by another, Ann Lee’s, in 1926. The Hotel (1927) was her first novel, and was followed by The Last September (1929), Joining Charles (1929), another book of short stories, Friends and Relations (1931), To the North (1932), The Cat Jumps (short stories, 1934), The House in Paris (1935), The Death of the Heart (1938), Look at All Those Roses (short stories, 1941), The Demon Lover (short stories, 1945), The Heat of the Day (1949), Collected Impressions (essays, 1950), The Shelborne (1951), A World of Love (1955), A Time in Rome (1960), Afterthought (essays, 1962), The Little Girls (1964), A Day in the Dark (1965) and her last book Eva Trout (1969).
She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. In the same year she was appointed Lacy Martin Donnelly Fellow at Bryn Mawr College in the United States. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.
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