People, Places, Things – Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
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People, Places, Things – Essays by Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn, Allan Hepburn

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People, Places, Things – Essays by Elizabeth Bowen

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This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The essays include Bowen's observations on age, toys, disappointment, writers, and manners.

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Edinburgh University Press
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2008
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9780748635702
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Literature
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Literary Essays

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  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. LIGHT
  5. Modern Lighting
  6. The 1938 Academy: An Unprofessional View
  7. Christmas at Bowen's Court
  8. The Light in the Dark
  9. Ecstasy of the Eye
  10. New Waves of the Future
  11. PLACES
  12. Britain in Autumn
  13. By the Unapproachable Sea
  14. Foreword to The Cinque Ports
  15. The Idea of France
  16. Paris Peace Conference: 1946. An Impression
  17. Paris Peace Conference – Some Impressions 1
  18. Paris Peace Conference – Some Impressions 2
  19. Paris Peace Conference – Some Impreesions 3
  20. Prague and the Crisis
  21. Hungary
  22. Without Coffee, Cigarettes, or Feeling
  23. Regent's Park and St. John's Wood
  24. New York Waiting in My Memory
  25. PEOPLE
  26. Miss Willis
  27. Paul Morand
  28. Mainie Jellett
  29. Foreword to Olive Willis and Downe House
  30. HOUSES
  31. The Christmas Toast is “Home!”
  32. Opening up the House
  33. Home for Christmas
  34. Bowen's Court
  35. IRELAND
  36. Letter from Ireland
  37. Ireland Makes Irish
  38. How They Live in Ireland: Conquest by Cheque-Book
  39. Ireland
  40. Introduction to The House by the Church-yard
  41. THINGS
  42. Toys
  43. Calico Windows
  44. Introduction to The ABC of Millinery
  45. The Teakettle
  46. On Giving a Present
  47. The Art of Giving
  48. Mirrors Are Magic
  49. WRITERS AND THEIR BOOKS
  50. Jane Austen
  51. Introduction to Pride and Prejudice
  52. What Jane Austen Means to Me
  53. Persuasion
  54. Introduction to No One to Blame
  55. James Joyce
  56. New Writers
  57. Guy de Maupassant
  58. Foreword to Tomato Cain and Other Stories
  59. Foreword to Haven: Short Stories, Poems and Aphorisms
  60. Introduction to The Stories of William Sansom
  61. A Matter of Inspiration
  62. Introduction to An Angela Thirkell Omnibus
  63. A Passage to E. M. Forster
  64. Introduction to Staying with Relations
  65. FAIRY TALES
  66. Comeback of Goldilocks et al.
  67. Introduction to The King of the Golden River
  68. Enchanted Centenary of the Brothers Grimm
  69. ON WRITING
  70. What We Need in Writing
  71. The Short Story in England
  72. Introduction to Chance
  73. Introduction to The Observer Prize Stories
  74. English Fiction at Mid-Century
  75. Rx for a Story Worth the Telling
  76. Preface to Critics Who Have Influenced Taste
  77. AGE
  78. Modern Girlhood
  79. Teenagers
  80. Mental Annuity
  81. The Case for Summer Romance
  82. The Beauty of Being Your Age
  83. Was It an Art?
  84. WOMEN
  85. An Enormous Channel of Expectation
  86. Enemies of Charm in Women, in Men
  87. Woman's Place in the Affairs of Man
  88. Outrageous Ladies
  89. VARIOUS ARTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS
  90. A Way of Life
  91. The Forgotten Art of Living
  92. The Art of Respecting Boundaries
  93. The Virtue of Optimism
  94. Disappointment 1
  95. Disappointment 2
  96. How to Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric
  97. The Thread of Dreams
  98. Notes
  99. Works Cited