Elizabeth Bowen

Broschiertes Buch

The Last September

Beschreibung

Elizabeth Bowen vividly captures the decline of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy during the Irish War of Independence through the lens of the Naylor family and their 19-year-old niece, Lois Farquar, illuminating the tension between tradition and modernity.

Autor

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, short story writer, and essayist celebrated for her precise, lyrical prose and her keen psychological insight. Born in Dublin and raised partly in County Cork, she drew deeply on the landscapes, houses, and tensions of Ireland in her early fiction, while later works often explored the moral and emotional upheavals of wartime London. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Bowen produced acclaimed novels such as The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, as well as finely crafted short stories. A chronicler of shifting worlds-whether the fading Anglo-Irish gentry or the fragile civility of a city under siege-Bowen combined elegance and wit with a sharp sense of the undercurrents shaping human lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9780486854571
• ISBN-10: 0486854574
• Artikelnr.: 74379703

Rezensionen

A book I read only some years ago, and was astonished by its modernity, its formidable intelligence and its punk sensibility, was The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen Sebastian Barry Guardian