People, Places, Things - Essays by Elizabeth Bowen

by Elizabeth Bowen

Book Overview

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 and the Crisis," and "Bowen's Court." In "Britain in Autumn," she records the strained atmosphere of the blitz as no other writer does. Immediately after the war, she reported...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748635688
• ISBN13: 9780748635689
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher