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1 online resource (x, 467 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-467). |
| Summary |
Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous intelligence. Always sensitive to underlying tensions, she evokes the particular climate of countries and places in "Hungary," "Prague and the Crisis," and "Bowen's Court." In "Britain in Autumn," she records the strained atmosphere of the blitz as no other writer does. Immediately after the war, she reported on the International Peace Conference in Paris in a series of essays that are startling in their evoc. |
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Light. Modern lighting ; The 1938 Academy : an unprofessional view ; Christmas at Bowen's Court ; The light in the dark ; Ecstasy of the eye ; New waves of the future -- Places. Britain in autumn ; By the unapproachable sea ; Foreword to The cinque ports, by Ronald and Frank Jessup ; The idea of France ; Paris Peace Conference, 1946 : an impression ; Paris Peace Conference : some impressions 1 ; Paris Peace Conference : some impressions 2 ; Paris Peace Conference : some impressions 3 ; Prague and the crisis ; Hungary ; Without coffee, cigarettes, or feeling ; Regent's Park and St. John's Wood ; New York waiting in my memory -- People. Miss Willis ; Paul Morand ; Mainie Jellett ; Foreword to Olive Willis and Downe House, by Anne Ridler -- Houses. The Christmas toast is "Home!" ; Opening up the house ; Home for Christmas ; Bowen's Court -- Ireland. Letter from Ireland ; Ireland makes Irish ; How they live in Ireland : conquest by cheque-book ; Ireland ; Introduction to The house by the church-yard, by Sheridan Le Fanu -- Things. Toys ; Calico windows ; Introduction to The ABC of millinery, by Eva Ritcher ; The teakettle ; On giving a present ; The art of giving ; Mirrors are magic -- Writers and their books. Jane Austen ; Introduction to Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen ; What Jane Austen means to me ; Persuasion ; Introduction to No one to blame, by H.M. Taylor ; James Joyce ; New writers ; Guy de Maupassant ; Foreword to Tomato Cain and other stories, by Nigel Kneale ; Foreword to Haven: short stories, poems and aphorisms, by Elizabeth Bibesco ; Introduction to The stories of William Sansom ; A matter of inspiration ; Introduction to An Angela Thirkell omnibus ; A passage to E.M. Forster ; Introduction to Staying with relations, by Rose Macaulay. |
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Fairy tales. Comback of Goldilocks et al. ; Introduction to The king of the Golden River, by John Ruskin ; Enchanted centenary of the Brothers Grimm -- On writing. What we need in writing ; The short story in England ; Introduction to Chance ; Introduction to The Observer prize stories ; English fiction at mid-century ; Rx for a story worth the telling ; Preface to Critics who have influenced taste -- Age. Modern girlhood ; Teenagers ; Mental annuity ; The case for summer romance ; The beauty of being your age ; Was it an art? -- Women. An enormous channel of expectation ; Enemies of charm in women, in men ; Woman's place in the affairs of man ; Outrageous ladies -- Various arts and disappointments. A way of life ; The forgotten art of living ; The art of respecting boundaries ; The virtue of optimism ; Disappointment 1 ; Disappointment 2 ; How to be yourself, but not eccentric ; The thread of dreams. |
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| Subject |
Bowen, Elizabeth. |
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English essays -- 20th century.
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English essays. |
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20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Essay.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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Hepburn, Allan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973. People, places, things. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 0748635688 9780748635689 (OCoLC)248982805 |
| ISBN |
9780748635702 (electronic book) |
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074863570X (electronic book) |
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9780748635689 (Cloth) |
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0748635688 (Cloth) |
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1282059025 |
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9781282059023 |
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0748635696 |
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9780748635696 |
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