Collected Stories, Paperback - Elizabeth Bowen

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties...

A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction: 'the supreme genius of her time'...

Reducere. Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen establishe...

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Elizabeth Bowen's first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled British tourists on the Ita...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.S. BYATT When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating...

Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's las...

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings,...

Reducere. Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well...

Reducere. A young woman's secret love affair leads to a violent and tragic act in one of Elizabeth Bowen's most acclaimed novels. To the North centers on two...

Reducere. This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection--a finalist for the National Book Award--demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extr...

Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer's coming of age through disorienting, ...

these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the hum...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one o...

'Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast' Sunday TimesMelding his native...

Included are classics of short-form fiction such as 'A Bear Hunt', 'A Rose for Emily', 'Two Soldiers' and 'The Brooch'. Faulkner's ability to compr...

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are...

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powers

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly ...

Presents stories of abandonment and vengeance, in which extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so dista...

A collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Some stories recount the events of a single day, while some are contained in a wider frame.

Deals with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children. This title contains the author's controversial story "Weddings and Be...

Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening N...

Introducing you to a host of extraordinary characters and communities, this book includes a collection of short stories written by Gabriel Garcia M...

Reducere. First appearing in 1905, Arsène Lupin is the most famous fictional character of French writer Maurice Leblanc. Gentleman thief and master of disgui...

Reducere. The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in b...

Reducere. I m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form...

A selection of poems from one of the greatest female poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of short fiction from Susan Sontag, the National Book Award-winning author of In America and Against Interpretation, and th...

Two exquisite collections of stories and a Whitbread Award-winning novel brought together with an introduction from Alan HollinghurstPublisher: Pan...

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Eli...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A new and definitive edition of the poetry by one of the best-loved and most enduringly popular modern poets, this collection includes almost all o...

Reducere. In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century Am...

Reducere. A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh ...