People, Places, Things
Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
People, Places, Things - Essays by Elizabeth BowenEdited and Introduced by Allan HepburnThroughout 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 evocation of t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3569-6
- EAN: 9780748635696
- Produktnummer: 22671163
- Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.3 cm x D2.7 cm 602 g
- Gewicht: 602
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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.
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