LEADER 05123nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910454266903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612059025 010 $a1-282-05902-5 010 $a0-7486-3570-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000716102 035 $a(EBL)420670 035 $a(OCoLC)476252539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219533 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11910731 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219533 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247621 035 $a(PQKB)11085211 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000305728 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12067927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305728 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10294036 035 $a(PQKB)24043954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC420670 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL420670 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10277569 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL205902 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000716102 100 $a20080828d2008 uy e 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeople, places, things$b[electronic resource] $eessays /$fby Elizabeth Bowen ; edited with an introduction by Allan Hepburn 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (481 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-3569-6 311 $a0-7486-3568-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 418-467). 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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; 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 Impreesions 3; Prague and the Crisis; Hungary; Without Coffee, Cigarettes, or Feeling; Regent's Park and St. John's Wood 327 $aNew York Waiting in My MemoryPEOPLE; Miss Willis; Paul Morand; Mainie Jellett; Foreword to Olive Willis and Downe House; 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; THINGS; Toys; Calico Windows; Introduction to The ABC of Millinery; The Teakettle; On Giving a Present; The Art of Giving; Mirrors Are Magic; WRITERS AND THEIR BOOKS; Jane Austen; Introduction to Pride and Prejudice 327 $aWhat Jane Austen Means to MePersuasion; Introduction to No One to Blame; James Joyce; New Writers; Guy de Maupassant; Foreword to Tomato Cain and Other Stories; Foreword to Haven: Short Stories, Poems and Aphorisms; 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; FAIRY TALES; Comeback of Goldilocks et al.; Introduction to The King of the Golden River; Enchanted Centenary of the Brothers Grimm; ON WRITING; What We Need in Writing; The Short Story in England 327 $aIntroduction to ChanceIntroduction 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 1 327 $aDisappointment 2How to Be Yourself - But Not Eccentric; The Thread of Dreams; Notes; Works Cited 330 $aThroughout 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 on the International Peace Conference in Paris in a series of essays that are startling in their evocation of tense diplomacy among i 606 $aWomen and literature$zIreland$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aIreland$xSocial life and customs$vFiction 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a824.912 700 $aBowen$b Elizabeth$f1899-1973.$0131365 701 $aHepburn$b Allan$0906411 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454266903321 996 $aPeople, places, things$92287741 997 $aUNINA