"a successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy, it has incidental documentary value in its brilliant description of Anglo-Irish life at the troublesome time of the 1920s" "TLS". von Bowen, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited....

'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...

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in...

"To the North" von Elizabeth Bowen ist ein Roman, der sich mit den komplexen Beziehungen und emotionalen Verflechtungen einer Gruppe von Menschen im London der 1920er Jahre auseinandersetzt. Im Zentrum der Geschichte stehen die Witwe...

The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who...

Collected Stories von Bowen, Elizabeth

People, Places, Things - Essays by Elizabeth Bowen Edited and Introduced by Allan Hepburn Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous...