The bazaar and other stories
A prolific writer of short stories, Elizabeth Bowen claimed towards the end of her life that "a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible." Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these stories demonstrate the virtuosity of technique that characterizes all of Bowen's writing. With this collection, Bowen, gifted with keen social observation, justifies her place in the company of D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia…
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- Full title :The bazaar and other stories / Elizabeth Bowen ; edited with an introduction by Allan Hepburn.
Summary
A prolific writer of short stories, Elizabeth Bowen claimed towards the end of her life that "a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible." Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these stories demonstrate the virtuosity of technique that characterizes all of Bowen's writing. With this collection, Bowen, gifted with keen social observation, justifies her place in the company of D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 377 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0748635734, 9780748635733, 128178592X, 9781281785923, 9786611785925, 6611785922
- oclc:ocn270110481
- LC Classification:PR6003.O6757
- Dewey Decimal:823.912
Table of Contents
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Uncollected Short Stories -- Salon des Dames -- Moses -- "Just Imagine ..." -- The Pink Biscuit -- Flavia -- She Gave Him -- Brigands -- The Unromantic Princess -- Comfort and Joy -- The Good Earl -- The Lost Hope -- I Died of Love -- So Much Depends -- Emergency in the Gothic Wing -- The Claimant -- Candles in the WIndow -- Happiness -- Unpublished and Unfinished Short Stories -- The Bazaar -- Miss Jolley Has No Plans for the Future -- The Man and the Boy -- Story Scene -- Flowers Will Do -- The Last Bus -- Fairies at the Christening -- Christmas Games -- Home for Christmas -- Ghost Story -- Women in Love -- Notes -- Works Cited.
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