The Bazaar and Other Stories
 Author: Elizabeth Bowen Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9780748635726 ISBN: 0748635726 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2009-06-24 [... more]
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The Death of the Heart
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
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Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
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 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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The Heat of the Day (Twentieth Century Classics)
Lovely cover, dull story: I consider myself a reader of some discernment, but this book was among the most difficult to enjoy or to offer any reason to go beyond the 160 pages that I managed to muddle through. First, it seemed very dated and the pages [... more]
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Elizabeth Bowen
The grande dame: Anchor recently has been reissuing almost all of Elizabeth Bowen's novels in gorgeous new editions, and they decided to complement these with this reissue of this excellent 1977 standard life of one of the greatest twentieth-century [... more]
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To the North (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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. The edited life: TO THE NORTH was one of the most praised of [... more]
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The Death of the Heart (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... 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 Hotel (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Charming and very much of its period: The novel's storyline is fairly divided among several well-to-do British guests staying at a hotel on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s--mostly concerned with the subtle nuances of their emotional interactions with [... more]
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The Last September (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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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The Little Girls (Twentieth Century Classics)
Anti Nostolgic Reaquaintence: Elizabeth Bowen became one of my favorite authors ever within the first chapter of the first book of hers that I read, (The House in Paris). Her text is acute and moving, it makes everyone alive and has a tangible respect of [... more]
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