Elizabeth Bowen

Centrado en el universo perecedero de la mansión Danielstown, El último septiembre es un relato de gran fuerza ambientado en la Guerra de independencia irlandesa. Los incendios y emboscadas se ven d

Elizabeth Bowen es la más brillante sucesora del grupo de Bloomsbury. En su literatura se encuentra el nexo que vincula a Virginia Woolf con Iris Murdoch y Muriel Spark. Publicada en 1938, y conside

Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. In the course of a single day, the mystery surrounding Leopold, his parents, Henriettas agitated hostess and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs, come to light slowly and tantalisingly.

Elizabeth Bowens account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere.

Read Elizabeth Bowens accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNINGThe Irish troubles rage, but up at the Big House, tennis parties, dances and flirtations with the English officers continue, undisturbed by the ambushes, arrests and burning country beyond the gates.

Two of Bowens most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowens precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) va ser una destacada escriptora irlandesa. La seva obra literària va abastar diversos gèneres, incloent novel·les, contes curts i crítica literària. Va ser coneguda per la

In 1914 they had been eleven years old Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two - Clare, now established with a successful business, and Sheila, a married woman, glossy, chic and correct. What are the revelations - and the dangers - in summoning up childhood?

Eva Trout has a capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowens last completed novel, and in it her elegant style, her gift for social comedy and her intense sensibility combine to create one of her most formidable - and moving - heroines.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.S. BYATTWhen eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. In the course of a single day, the mystery surrounding Leopold, his parents, Henriettas agitated hostess and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs, come to light slowly and tantalisingly.

Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowens most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowens precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.

This selection of Bowens non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of London in wartime and of the Irish big house, and penetrating accounts of some of her most famous contemporaries. It also contains her autobiography, posthumously published and left tantalising unfinished, a little known portrait of a beloved family servant, and unpublished letters to close friends as Virginia Woolf and William Plomer, written with as much elegance and energy as her public writing. In her introduction, Hermoine Lee shows how these writings display the same interests as Elizabeth Bowens fiction - in Anglo-Irish dispossession and ambivalence, in the persistence of chilhood feelings, in treachery, ghosts, and the mysterious power of place, the lure of nostalgia , and the clash between individual and society.

Elizabeth Bowens account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their often bloody activities and speculates about the immense noise of ancient Rome, the problems caused by the Romans dining posture, and the Roman temperament. She evokes the citys moods - by day, when it is characterised by golden sunlight, and at night, when the blaze of the moon annihilates history.

Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater. Markies appearance disrupts the lives of both women, but in the pain of misunderstanding, it is Emmeline who reveals her vulnerability in a violent and tragic act.Reissued alongside The Hotel and The Little Girls

Elizabeth Bowen takes us on a tour through the history of the famous Dublin landmark, the Shelbourne Hotel, in this evocative account of Irish life. Looking out on Dublin as if from the windows of the Shelbourne, and then turning inward to witness the impact of events on the hotel, its guests and staff, Bowen paints a picture of what was, in the hotels earlier days, the second city of the Empire, then the battleground of Irish independence and civil strife, and eventually the capital of a republic.