Elizabeth Bowen

The Bazaar and Other Stories

Herausgeber: Hepburn, Allan

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these previously uncollected stories demonstrate the virtuosity that characterizes all of Elizabeth Bowen's writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780748635719
• ISBN-10: 0748635718
• Artikelnr.: 25906538

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was a leading Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Her writing was influenced both by Henry James and by modernist writers. She is best known for her novels of the 1930s, her war novel, The Heat of the Day (1949), and her short stories of the London Blitz. Allan Hepburn is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal. He has also edited The Bazaar and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen and People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen, both published by Edinburgh University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Uncollected Short Stories
Salon des Dames
Moses
"Just Imagine . . ." Pink Biscuit
Flavia
She Gave Him
Brigands
The Unromantic Princess
Comfort and Joy The Good Earl
The Lost Hope
I Died of Love
So Much Depends
Emergency in the Gothic Wing
The Claimant
Candles in the Window
Happiness
Unpublished and Unfinished Short Stories
The Bazaar
Miss Jolley Has No Plans for the Future
The Man and the Boy
Story Scene
Flowers Will Do
The Last Bus
Fairies at the Christening
Christmas Games
Home for Christmas
Ghost Story
Women in Love
Notes
Works Cited.