Elizabeth Bowen

Bazaar and Other Stories (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hepburn, Allan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A prolific writer of short stories, Elizabeth Bowen claimed towards the end of her life that "e;a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible."e; 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. "e;The Lost Hope"e; ranks with the best of her war stories. Shattering the lives of soldiers and civilians alike, the war cancels the promise shown by the generation that came of age in the 1940s. Yet the war also clears a path to the future, as happens in "e;Comfort and Joy"e; and "e;The Last Bus."e; Bowen's characters live in the grip of intense circumstances. They respond ardently or ironically to their dilemmas, and sometimes both at once, as does sulky, big-limbed Doris Simonez in "e;Flowers Will Do."e; If some of the children in these stories are too wise for their age, like the punctual protagonist of "e;The Unromantic Princess,"e; adults occasionally behave with no insight at all into their actions. Humour in these tales ranges from the sardonic to the light-hearted. In the title story, "e;The Bazaar,"e; Captain Winch begs everyone for pins and ends up stealing some. Lady Hottenham gives an impromptu little speech that drifts agonizingly into cliche. The fairy tales, fables, and social dramas in this volume were never gathered together during Bowen's lifetime; a few exist only in unfinished draft. 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.Key Features:*Brings together for the first time Bowen's uncollected short stories*Demonstrates the diversity of Bowen's short fiction across her writing career*The stories cover familiar Bowen themes of marriage, travel, estrangement, disappointment and disinheritance*Completes the picture of Bowen as a compelling writing of the short story

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748635733
• Artikelnr.: 72478430

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was a leading Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Her writing was influenced both by Henry James and by modernist writers. She is best known for her novels of the 1930s, her war novel, The Heat of the Day (1949), and her short stories of the London Blitz. Allan Hepburn is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal. He has also edited The Bazaar and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen and People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen, both published by Edinburgh University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Uncollected Short Stories
Salon des Dames
Moses
"Just Imagine . . ." 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.