Bowen's Court & Seven Winters
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Two of Elizabeth Bowen's most intimate and enduring works of non-fiction are united in this volume, offering a rare window into the world that shaped one of the twentieth century's finest prose stylists. Bowen's Court chronicles the sweeping history of the Anglo-Irish Big House that bore her family's name — a grand, isolated mansion in County Cork that stood as both a symbol of the Protestant Ascendancy and a deeply personal inheritance — while Seven Winters presents a luminous memoir of Bowen's Dublin childhood, evoking the sensory textures of a vanished Edwardian world with extraordinary precision and grace. Together, these two works illuminate the twin pillars of Bowen's imaginative universe: place and memory. Her prose, characteristically poised between lyric intensity and cool, architectural clarity, transforms the personal into the historical and the historical into the deeply felt. The result is an essential companion to her fiction, revealing the biographical and cultural roots of her celebrated novels — and leaving the reader to wonder how much of that lost world still haunts the rooms she left behind.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Two of Elizabeth Bowen's most intimate and enduring works of non-fiction are united in this volume, offering a rare window into the world that shaped one of the twentieth century's finest prose stylists. Bowen's Court chronicles the sweeping history of the Anglo-Irish Big House that bore her family's name — a grand, isolated mansion in County Cork that stood as both a symbol of the Protestant Ascendancy and a deeply personal inheritance — while Seven Winters presents a luminous memoir of Bowen's Dublin childhood, evoking the sensory textures of a vanished Edwardian world with extraordinary precision and grace. Together, these two works illuminate the twin pillars of Bowen's imaginative universe: place and memory. Her prose, characteristically poised between lyric intensity and cool, architectural clarity, transforms the personal into the historical and the historical into the deeply felt. The result is an essential companion to her fiction, revealing the biographical and cultural roots of her celebrated novels — and leaving the reader to wonder how much of that lost world still haunts the rooms she left behind.