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Elizabeth Bowen's most famous novel, THE DEATH OF THE HEART is a piercing story of innocence betrayed. The heroine is Portia, the product of a blithe, itinerant childhood in second-rate European hotels. Her parents dead, she is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home in London in the thirties. There she meets Eddie, who is handsome, brash, and charming. To Eddie, Portia is at once child a...

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Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil.Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories togeth...

Air and Ground Poems is a compilation of poems from Elizabeth Ann Bowen. Composed over the course of several years spanning youth to adulthood, the collection includes haikus, limerick, a sonnet, and some free verse. The poems range in mood from funny to sad, whereas some are introspective and thought provoking. While each poem is a reflection of Elizabeth's beliefs and ideas, the collection has a cathartic air that is sure to resonate with re...

Air and Ground Poems is a compilation of poems from Elizabeth Ann Bowen. Composed over the course of several years spanning youth to adulthood, the collection includes haikus, limerick, a sonnet, and some free verse. The poems range in mood from funny to sad, whereas some are introspective and thought provoking. While each poem is a reflection of Elizabeth's beliefs and ideas, the collection has a cathartic air that is sure to resonate with re...

Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil.Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories togeth...

Elizabeth Bowen's third novel detonates an explosive secret long concealed beneath the polite surface of two sisters' conventional marriages.Elizabeth Bowen's deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples' seemingly peaceful, uncomplicated lives as the long-held secret of one sister's passion f...

Elizabeth Bowen's first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among British tourists on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s.The aftermath of the first World War haunts the background of Elizabeth Bowen's remarkable first novel. A luxurious seaside hotel on the Riviera, filled with a cast of well-heeled and often comic English vacationers, seems a closed and comfortable world, marked by dramas no more moment...

The publication of Encounters in1923 launched what would become a luminous forty-year writing career that spanned the advent of modernist literature, the Second World War, and the fraught years preceding the political turmoil of "the Troubles" in Ireland. These gem-like stories display Elizabeth Bowen's uncanny ability to represent un-belonging, dispossession, and the fragility of selfhood. With astonishing literary adroitness and psychologica...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...