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People, Places, Things - Essays by Elizabeth Bowen (Paperback, New)
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People, Places, Things - Essays by Elizabeth Bowen (Paperback, New)
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This volume collects for the first time essays published in
British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as
well as essays which have never been published before. The range of
subjects alone makes these essays indispensable reading.Throughout
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 tense diplomacy among
international delegates scrabbling to define the boundaries of
Europe and the stakes of the Cold War. The aftershock of war
registers poignantly in "Opening Up the House": owners evacuated
during the war return to their houses empty since 1939. Other
essays in this volume, especially those on James Joyce, Jane
Austen, and the technique of writing, offer indispensable
mid-century evaluations of the state of literature. The essays
assembled in this volume were published in British, Irish, and
American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime. She herself did not
gather them into any collection. Some of these essays exist only as
typescript drafts and are published here for the first time.
Bowen's observations on age, toys, disappointment, charm, and
manners place her among the very best literary essayists of the
modernist period.
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