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The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all know...

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of shorts stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1926) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin...

A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.

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Tapestry, poignant at times, at once heartbreaking and courageous, promises to deepen the understanding of what it takes for two people who love each other to remain a "we", even as one of them is dying and the decline threatens to rock the strength and center of the other. "Where is loving in all this? How am I to be loving in the face of despair, mood swings, anger? How am I to feel sexual, sensual, when I am living through fear and ...

Tapestry, poignant at times, at once heartbreaking and courageous, promises to deepen the understanding of what it takes for two people who love each other to remain a "we", even as one of them is dying and the decline threatens to rock the strength and center of the other. "Where is loving in all this? How am I to be loving in the face of despair, mood swings, anger? How am I to feel sexual, sensual, when I am living through fear and ...

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Young widow Cecilia Summers is about to embark on her second marriage to an unexciting but kind suitor. Cecilia's sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised and dismayed at her own attraction to a predatory rake, an affair with whom leads Emmeline to a violent and tragic act. Acclaimed Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) interweaves the two stories and gently uncovers the motives that underlie each woman's actions. A Penguin Twentieth-Ce...

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Travel writing providing an account of one Spring spent in Rome several years ago.

In this pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the nature of sovereignty and law, governance and regulation, diplomacy, military relations and commerce that influenced the processes of British empire-building.

A new edition of the double collection of memoirs from the acclaimed author, which was first published in 1942.

Eva Trout has a capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble and for spreading trouble around her. This book was the author's last completed novel, first published in 1968.

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Excerpt from Encounters, Stories He saw the family in silhouette against the windows, the windows looked out into a garden closed darkly in upon by walls. There were so many of the family it seemed as though they must have multiplied during the night their ¿esh gleamed pinkly in the cold northern light and they were always moving. Often, like the weary shep herd, he could have prayed them to keep still that he might count them. About the Pub...

Siamo a Parigi, in inverno, la Grande guerra è finita da poco, aleggia sulla città un'atmosfera cupa e vischiosa. Alla Gare du Nord scende Henrietta, undici anni, con in mano la sua scimmietta di pezza. Viene a prenderla la signorina Fisher, un'amica di famiglia che la ospiterà per una intera giornata in un elegante appartamento, in attesa di farla ripartire per il Sud della Francia. In quella casa borghese, dal confortevole odore di pulito, H...

It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen's first novel lays bare the intricacies and eccentricities of polite society.

In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is one of those who chose to stay. But for her, the sense of impending catastrophe becomes acutely personal when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is susp...

In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand of emotional and psychological depth.In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters writ...