Elizabeth Bowen

The sixth volume in the popular Very Christmas series from New Vessel Press, this collection transports readers to the Emerald Isle with stories and poems sure to bring holiday cheer. This anthology is packed with beloved classics, forgotten treasures, and modern masterpieces. You'll find wondrous works by James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Enright, William Trevor, Colm T ib n, Bernard MacLaverty, and many more. See how Christmas is done in snowy Dublin and on the mean streets of Belfast, from west coast to east, and even across sea and ocean to Irish communities in London and New York City. Put a flickering candle in the window and a steaming dinner on the table, and celebrate the Irish way--Nollaig Shona Daoibh--and Merry Christmas

Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last completed novel, and in it her elegant style, her gift for social comedy and her intense sensibility combine to create one of her most formidable - and moving - heroines.

In this glitterring new clothbound edition of the beloved Christmas chiller, the gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are still hungry. Chill Tidings ushers in a host of ghastly phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on ruining, or partaking in, the most wonderful time of the year. With classic tales from Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Bowen, Charlotte Riddell and L P Hartley, jostling with rare pieces from the sleeping periodicals and literary magazines of the British Library collections, it’s time to open the door and let the real festivities begin. Welcome to this beautiful new edition of the beloved collection of Christmas nightmares that have been scaring readers since 2020. With a new afterword by Tanya Kirk, this book celebrates the timeless tradition of cosying up during the cold winter nights whilst these dark tales send a chill down your spine.

An awkward young woman develops an "unsuitable attachment" to a beautiful, worldly widow in a queer-coded novel set in a luxurious hotel on the Italian Riviera. Sydney Warren is a young, rebellious women in her twenties, uninterested in marriage and a puzzle to her friends and family. While staying at a luxurious hotel on the Italian Riviera, she becomes infatuated with Mrs. Kerr, an older and very beautiful widow--and the two women's close friendship swiftly becomes the subject of gossip at the hotel. But when Mrs. Kerr's young son arrives to visit his mother, the balance of Sydney and Mrs. Kerr's relationship is upset: a drama that plays out in front of an array of delightful, fascinating minor characters. Originally published in 1927, Elizabeth Bowen's first novel follows a group of British tourists vacationing on the Italian Riviera. The Hotel is a debut novel that explores social and emotional relationships and one young woman's coming-of-age.

Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September is a poignant and evocative masterpiece that captures the inner register of a tumultuous time. Set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, the novel delves into the lives of the Anglo-Irish gentry as they cling to a way of life on the brink of extinction. At the novel's center is Lois Farquar, a young woman coming of age in a world of fading traditions and uncertain futures. She navigates the complexities of first love and self-discovery amidst the political upheaval of 1920s Ireland. However, Bowen renders her protagonist not as a romantic heroine, but as a keen observer trapped in a decaying social architecture. The narrative pulses with an extraordinary tension: elegant surface rituals-tennis matches, dances, and drawing room conversations-cannot mask the constant threat of political violence. The turbulent atmosphere permeates the story, even in its most seemingly serene moments, creating a haunting juxtaposition of beauty and unrest. Bowen herself described the novel as an exploration of the Troubles, which were marked by ambushes, arrests, captures and burning, reprisals and counter-reprisals. The Last September is a landmark work that remains as poignant and uncompromising as when it was first published.

A haunting portrayal of love and betrayal in a London hollowed by war.It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself. Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of Stella's life begin to crumble.‘Alive with the erotic tensions of the blackout, the Blitz and the heightened pleasures of sex in the proximity of death’ London Review of BooksWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROY FOSTERThis series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition

British vacationers spend time in a luxurious seaside hotel on the Italian Riviera intrigued by the mystery surrounding Sydney Warren, a young woman in her twenties, who mixes up with the cast of characters creating bewilderment for them.

'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil.Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen's ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen's native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz.Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and body.

Elizabet Bouen - svjazujuschee zveno mezhdu Virdzhiniej Vulf i Ajris Merdok.Proverennaja vremenem, no neizvestnaja v Rossii klassika."Smert serdtsa", istorija junoj ljubvi i predatelstva nevinnosti - samaja izvestnaja kniga Elizabet Bouen. Osirotevshaja shestnadtsatiletnjaja Portsija priekhav v London, okazyvaetsja v strannom mire nevyskazannykh slov, uskolzajuschikh vzgljadov, v atmosfere, odnovremenno utonchenno-elegantnoj i smertelno dushnoj. Voploschenie nevinnosti, Portsija nevolno stanovitsja toj siloj, kotoroj suzhdeno protsarapat lakirovannuju poverkhnost idealnoj svetskoj zhizni, pokazat, chto pod sijajuschim fasadom skryvajutsja obychnye ljudi, toskujuschie i slabye. Elizabet Bouen, klassik britanskoj literatury, uchastnitsa znamenitogo literaturnogo kruzha "Blumsberi", blizhajshaja podruga Virdzhinii Vulf, stala svjazujuschim zvenom mezhdu modernizmom nachala veka i psikhologicheskoj izoschrennostju vtoroj ego poloviny. V ee knigakh ostroe chuvstvo jumora soedinjaetsja s pogruzheniem v glubiny chelovecheskikh motivov i zhelanij. Roman "Smert serdtsa" vkhodit v 100 samykh vazhnykh britanskikh romanov v istorii anglijskoj literatury. Elizabet Bouen byla i ostaetsja odnim iz uverenno tikhikh golosov britanskoj literatury, kotorye, nesmotrja na svoju kazhuschujusja neprimetnost, i sostavljajut samu ee osnovu, kostjak oschuschenij, voznikajuschikh u chitatelja, stoit emu zaslyshat slova "britanskaja literatura". Anastasija ZavozovaOstroumnyj, prozrachnyj, krasivyj psikhologicheskij roman. Luchshaja kniga Elizabet Bouen.The New YorkerElizabet Bouen - svjazujuschee zveno mezhdu Virdzhiniej Vulf i Ajris Merdok. Victoria GlendinningBouen pishet i iskusno, i bezyskusno. Sderzhannost i nedogovorennost pridajut ee romanu kakuju-to osobuju naprjazhennost, budjat ljubopytstvo.The New York TimesRoman pokazyvaet glavnoe v chelovecheskoj suti. Zakryvaja knigu, ponimaesh, chto tvoja zhizn tainstvennym obrazom napolnilas smyslom, obogatilas.The New YorkerTochnost opisanij, sukhaja i edkaja ironija, preparirovanie samykh glubinnykh chelovecheskikh chuvstv pri pomoschi obmanchivo prostykh slov, poeticheskoe vnimanie k pejzazhu i khirurgicheskoe - k detaljam, - vse eto v raznoj stepeni svojstvenno mnogim britanskim pisateljam, ot samoj Virdzhinii Vulf do Dzhuliana Barnsa, ot Nensi Mitford do Ali Smit. I Elizabet Bouen s romanom "Smert serdtsa", kotoryj v 1938 godu zavoeval priznanie ne tolko chitatelej, no i kritikov, v obschem-to davno nakhodilas v etom rjadu na ravnykh s ostalnymi pisateljami. Sderzhannyj stil Bouen - takaja zhe chast anglojazychnoj kultury, kak absurdizmy Kerrolla ili vjazkij sintaksis Khardi, prosto dlja russkogo chitatelja ee roman byl poterjannym zvenom britanskogo stilja - tochkoj, v kotoroj sovershalsja perekhod ot nasmeshlivoj prozy Nensi Mitford k prozrachnosti Ajris Mjordok, no teper etot probel budet v kakoj-to mere zapolnen.Anastasija ZavozovaElizabet Bouen (1899-1973) - anglo-irlandskij klassik, kavaler Ordane Britanskoj imperii, blizhajshaja podruga Virdzhinii Vulf. Elizabet Bouen rodilas v 1899 godu, v seme, kotoraja tak i prosilas na stranitsy tikhogo romana o sderzhannykh do nevynosimosti ljudjakh, chto perenosjat zhizn kak tjazheloe zabolevanie - na nogakh. V nachale 1920-kh godov Elizabet otpravilas v London - uchitsja iskusstvovedeniju, no vskore zabrosila zanjatija, reshiv posvjatit sebja pisatelstvu. Pervuju izvestnost ej prinesli romany 1930-kh godov, tipichnaja geroinja kotorykh - naivnaja, rasterjannaja devushka, popadajuschaja v svetskoe obschestvo vysshego klassa. Drugoj vazhnoj temoj ejo tvorchestva byla "borba individuuma za samorealizatsiju vo vrazhdebnom, kholodnom mire". V proze Bouen soedinilis modernizm nachala veka i realistichnost opisyvaemogo. V 1935 godu Elizabet Bouen v kruzhok literatorov "Blumsberi", kuda vkhodila takzhe i Virdzhinija Vulf. V 1938-m vykhodit ee samyj izvestnyj (i mnogimi schitajuschijsja luchshim) roman "Smert serdtsa". Romany Elizabet Bouen na russkij jazyk prezhde ne perevodilis, i eto bolshoe upuschenie, poskolku Bouen ne tolko ochen vazhnaja figura v britanskoj literature, no i zanimaet ono osoboe mesto, javljajas svoego roda zvenom mezhdu modernizmom nachala veka i ekzistentsialnym realizmom kontsa veka.Perevodchik: Zavozova Anastasija

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