The Collected Stories Of Elizabeth Bowen
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few writers have captured the tremors of ordinary life with such devastating precision as Elizabeth Bowen, and The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen stands as the definitive testament to her extraordinary gifts. This landmark anthology gathers the full breadth of her short fiction, drawing readers into a world of drawing rooms and wartime streets, Irish country houses and London parlours, where the surface of polite society conceals profound emotional turbulence. With an introduction by Angus Wilson, this edition situates Bowen's work within the great tradition of the English short story, and each tale chronicles the anxieties, desires, and quiet devastations of characters caught between worlds — between innocence and experience, between the past and an uncertain present. Bowen's prose is a marvel of compression and atmospherical intensity; she writes with a poet's ear for rhythm and an anatomist's eye for the precise moment when composure fractures. Her stories inhabit a distinctly modernist sensibility, bearing comparison to the work of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, yet her voice remains unmistakably her own — ironic, luminous, and shot through with a deeply Irish melancholy. This collection cements her reputation as one of the twentieth century's finest practitioners of the form, and for those who have yet to encounter her work, the first page promises an encounter with a writer utterly unlike any other.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few writers have captured the tremors of ordinary life with such devastating precision as Elizabeth Bowen, and The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen stands as the definitive testament to her extraordinary gifts. This landmark anthology gathers the full breadth of her short fiction, drawing readers into a world of drawing rooms and wartime streets, Irish country houses and London parlours, where the surface of polite society conceals profound emotional turbulence. With an introduction by Angus Wilson, this edition situates Bowen's work within the great tradition of the English short story, and each tale chronicles the anxieties, desires, and quiet devastations of characters caught between worlds — between innocence and experience, between the past and an uncertain present. Bowen's prose is a marvel of compression and atmospherical intensity; she writes with a poet's ear for rhythm and an anatomist's eye for the precise moment when composure fractures. Her stories inhabit a distinctly modernist sensibility, bearing comparison to the work of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, yet her voice remains unmistakably her own — ironic, luminous, and shot through with a deeply Irish melancholy. This collection cements her reputation as one of the twentieth century's finest practitioners of the form, and for those who have yet to encounter her work, the first page promises an encounter with a writer utterly unlike any other.