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People, places, things : essays /
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 an...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2008.
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- Light. Modern lighting ; The 1938 Academy : an unprofessional view ; Christmas at Bowen's Court ; The light in the dark ; Ecstasy of the eye ; New waves of the future
- Places. Britain in autumn ; By the unapproachable sea ; Foreword to The cinque ports, by Ronald and Frank Jessup ; The idea of France ; Paris Peace Conference, 1946 : an impression ; Paris Peace Conference : some impressions 1 ; Paris Peace Conference : some impressions 2 ; Paris Peace Conference : some impressions 3 ; Prague and the crisis ; Hungary ; Without coffee, cigarettes, or feeling ; Regent's Park and St. John's Wood ; New York waiting in my memory
- People. Miss Willis ; Paul Morand ; Mainie Jellett ; Foreword to Olive Willis and Downe House, by Anne Ridler
- Houses. The Christmas toast is "Home!" ; Opening up the house ; Home for Christmas ; Bowen's Court
- Ireland. Letter from Ireland ; Ireland makes Irish ; How they live in Ireland : conquest by cheque-book ; Ireland ; Introduction to The house by the church-yard, by Sheridan Le Fanu
- Things. Toys ; Calico windows ; Introduction to The ABC of millinery, by Eva Ritcher ; The teakettle ; On giving a present ; The art of giving ; Mirrors are magic
- Writers and their books. Jane Austen ; Introduction to Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen ; What Jane Austen means to me ; Persuasion ; Introduction to No one to blame, by H.M. Taylor ; James Joyce ; New writers ; Guy de Maupassant ; Foreword to Tomato Cain and other stories, by Nigel Kneale ; Foreword to Haven: short stories, poems and aphorisms, by Elizabeth Bibesco ; Introduction to The stories of William Sansom ; A matter of inspiration ; Introduction to An Angela Thirkell omnibus ; A passage to E.M. Forster ; Introduction to Staying with relations, by Rose Macaulay.
- Fairy tales. Comback of Goldilocks et al. ; Introduction to The king of the Golden River, by John Ruskin ; Enchanted centenary of the Brothers Grimm
- On writing. What we need in writing ; The short story in England ; Introduction to Chance ; Introduction to The Observer prize stories ; English fiction at mid-century ; Rx for a story worth the telling ; Preface to Critics who have influenced taste
- Age. Modern girlhood ; Teenagers ; Mental annuity ; The case for summer romance ; The beauty of being your age ; Was it an art?
- Women. An enormous channel of expectation ; Enemies of charm in women, in men ; Woman's place in the affairs of man ; Outrageous ladies
- Various arts and disappointments. A way of life ; The forgotten art of living ; The art of respecting boundaries ; The virtue of optimism ; Disappointment 1 ; Disappointment 2 ; How to be yourself, but not eccentric ; The thread of dreams.