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The Bazaar and Other Stories /
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635726');This volume brings together the previously uncollected stories of this exceptional modernist writer, from fairy tale to fable and social drama.Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635726');This volume brings together the previously uncollected stories of this exceptional modernist writer, from fairy tale to fable and social drama.Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these previously uncollected stories demonstrate the virtuosity that characterizes all of Elizabeth Bowen's writing."The Lost Hope" 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 "Comfort and Joy" and "The Last Bus." Humour in these tales ranges from the sardonic to the light-hearted. In the title story, "The Bazaar," Captain Winch begs everyone for pins and ends up stealing some. 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 FeaturesBrings together for the first time Bowen's uncollected short storiesDemonstrates the diversity of Bowen's short fiction across her writing careerThe stories cover familiar Bowen themes of marriage, travel, estrangement, disappointment and disinheritanceCompletes the picture of Bowen as a compelling writing of the short story" |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780748635733 9783110780468 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |