The Last September
 The Aching Self: Elizabeth Bowen's _The Last September_ is really a novel about internal self-talk and how that internal dialogue with the self is full of unarticulated desires, willful self-deceptions, and social anxieties of all sorts. Bowen has an [... more]
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All This Reading: The Literary World of Barbara Pym
in praise of "All This Reading": In my opinion "All This Reading" is the best collection of essays written about Barbara Pym to date. The articles are all well written and full with insights, yet are diverse in their apprach. As a [... more]
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To the North
An absolute must: This finely wrought book is moving, believable and deep-probing. Its amazingly sharp insight goes hand in hand with a command of language that reminds the reader of Forster. Author: Elizabeth Bowen Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal [... more]
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The Little Girls
Author: Elizabeth Bowen Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9781400034796 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1400034795 Number Of Pages: 320 Release Date: 2004-07-13 [... more]
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Eva Trout
Extremely Bowenesque: EVA TROUT is perhaps the weakest of Bowen's novels and is certainly not the place to start your appreciation of her work. One of Bowen's characteristic devices is to describe not the terrible event, but the day after the terrible [... more]
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The Heat of the Day
Private hazards of war: One sign of a good book is that it continues to pursue you after you have read the last page and put it down. First of all, I liked the switches of scene from war-torn London to the tranquil but disheartened countryside. We are [... more]
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The Death of the Heart
From Amazon.com: Five words of advice on reading Elizabeth Bowen: Resist the urge to skim. In The Death of the Heart, Bowen's writing rolls ever onward, accruing the sensations and ironies of conscious living till the final effect is massive. This is not [... more]
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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
have a glass of sherry, come rest in the lounge: elizabeth bowen's stories are well crafted. reading them (for me... i was born in 1974) is like peeking into the drawing room of a time long gone and now crystallised on the page. i gave the book 4 stars [... more]
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The House in Paris
This book is inspiring and thought provoking.: The House in Paris is about making choices. It starts by introducing the reader to 11 year old Henrietta who passes through the House in Paris while on her way to visit her Grandmother in Mentone. We are [... more]
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Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of ...
From Amazon.com: When literary art meets the warmth, beauty, and culture of Italy, the results are stupifyingly wonderful. Susan Cahill has gathered jewels of writing, penned by 31 women of letters, inspired by Italy. There's Muriel Spark on Venice, [... more]
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