Bowen's Court
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
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Author : Eibhear Walshe
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781999997083
The Last Day at Bowen's Court deals with the life of the Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, her time in London during the Second World War and her 'reporting' on Irish neutrality for the Ministry of Information. At the centre of the novel is her Blitz love affair with the Canadian diplomat, Charles Ritchie, a wartime romance that inspired her most famous novel, The Heat of the Day, a gripping story about espionage and loyalty that became a best-seller. The novel is told from the point of view of Bowen herself, and also from that of her lover Charles Ritchie, her husband Alan Cameron and Ritchie's wife Sylvia. It is set in wartime London, Dublin and North Cork, and deals with the private and public conflicts of love and of national identity in a time of upheaval and liberation. At the centre of the novel is a portrait of Elizabeth Bowen, one of Ireland's most influential writers.
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1960
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Random House
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1446496988
Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of the Protestant Irish gentry whose lives were dominated by property, lawsuits, formidable matriarchs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking, and self-destructive fantasies. Seven Winters recalls with endearing candour Bowen's family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyes of a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds.
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 9780099287797
Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of the Protestant Irish gentry whose lives were dominated by property, lawsuits, formidable matriarchs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking, and self-destructive fantasies.Seven Winters recalls with endearing candour Bowen's family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyes of a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds.
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Reminiscences of the author's childhood.
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984899996
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 suspected of selling secrets to the enemy, and that the man who is following him wants Stella herself as the price of his silence. Caught between these two men, not sure whom to believe, Stella finds her world crumbling as she learns how little we can truly know of those around us.
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984899988
The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations. In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the thirties, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home in London.There she encounters the attractive, carefree cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once child and woman, and her fears her gushing love. To her, Eddie is the only reason to be alive. But when Eddie follows Portia to a sea-side resort, the flash of a cigarette lighter in a darkened cinema illuminates a stunning romantic betrayal--and sets in motion one of the most moving and desperate flights of the heart in modern literature.
Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
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