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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON

Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that ''the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work''.



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Bowen's stories show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul * Anne Tyler *
Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them -- V.S. Pritchett * Vogue *

Collected Stories

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/06/1999
      ISBN13: 9780099287735, 978-0099287735
      ISBN10: 0099287730
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      Classics Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON

      Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that ''the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work''.



      Trade Review
      Bowen's stories show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul * Anne Tyler *
      Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them -- V.S. Pritchett * Vogue *

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