Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: Death Of The Heart (Vintage classics), The, Bowen, Elizabeth ISBN: 0099276453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099276456 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An immaculate portrait of adolescent love from one of our most beloved novelists. `One of the last century`s greatest woman writers` GuardianWhen sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother`s home.
Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: Time in rome ISBN: 0099284952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099284956 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Elizabeth Bowen`s account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere.
Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: The Death of the Heart ISBN: 0385720173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385720175 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Riddell, Charlotte Broughton, Rhoda Selvon, Sam McKay, Claude Nesbit, Edith Hunt, Violet Galbraith, Lettice Benson, E. F. Bowen, Elizabeth Название: Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City ISBN: 0712353763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780712353762 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are tales from writers such as Charlotte Riddell, Lettie Galbraith and Violet Hunt, who delight in twisting the urban myths and folk stories of the city into pieces of masterful suspense and intrigue.
Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: A World of Love ISBN: 1400031052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400031054 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 written years ago by Guy, her mothers one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has explosive repercussions. It is not clear to whom the letters are addressed, and their appearance begins to lay bare the strange and unspoken connections between the adults now living in the house.
Soon, a girl on the brink of womanhood, a mother haunted by love lost, and a ruined matchmaker with her own claim on the dead wage a battle that makes the ghostly Guy as real a presence in Montefort as any of the living.
Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: The Heat of the Day ISBN: 0385721285 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385721288 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1559.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: Friends And Relations ISBN: 059308067X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593080672 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1471.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Elizabeth Bowen's deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples' peaceful lives as a long-concealed secret explodes to the surface. The repercussions ripple through four different families connected by the two marriages, hinging on the comic interventions of such vivid characters as Edward's mother, the glamorous and scandal-ridden Lady Elfrida; Rodney's notorious rake of an uncle; and a stridently awkward teenager, Theodora, who is keen to insert herself into the drama. Humor and pain abound in Friends and Relations, as Bowen weaves the barest hints of menace and the subtlest nuances of emotion into this devastating tale of the tangled web of human relationships.
Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: Hotel, The ISBN: 0593080653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593080658 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Elizabeth Bowen's first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled British tourists on the Italian Riviera. Their luxurious seaside hotel seems a closed and comfortable world, marked by dramas no more momentous than tennis games, picnics, and idle gossip. But for the young women of the 1920s, facing a dearth of young men after the first World War, it is a battleground for the clash of tradition and modernity. As rebellious young Sydney Warren tests the boundaries of her incomplete freedom--and becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older woman--she increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowen's most famous novels, The Hotel depicts a collection of privileged men and women in determined denial of a world that is falling apart around them.
Автор: Bowen Elizabeth Название: Encounters: Stories ISBN: 1733561641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733561648 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1517.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
The publication of Encounters in1923 launched what would become a luminous forty-year writing career that spanned the advent of modernist literature, the Second World War, and the fraught years preceding the political turmoil of "the Troubles" in Ireland. These gem-like stories display Elizabeth Bowen's uncanny ability to represent un-belonging, dispossession, and the fragility of selfhood. With astonishing literary adroitness and psychological acuity, she depicts the comedy of British class society, the fracturing of external perception, the pervasive influence of suppressed sexuality, and the abiding force of adolescent epiphanies. Her deft use of language to convey the interior atmosphere of her characters' lives renders these tales as moving as they are timeless.
Автор: Bowen Elizabeth Название: Collected Stories ISBN: 1101908181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101908181 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание:
A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of "one of the best short story writers who ever lived"--with a new introduction by John Banville.
Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of twentieth-century writers equally through her short fiction. This collection includes seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four decades, including such beloved classics as "Mysterious K r," "The Demon Lover," "Summer Night," "Ivy Gripped the Steps," and "The Happy Autumn Fields." Whether placing her reader in a remote Irish castle or a seaside Italian villa or bomb-scarred London during the Blitz, Bowen was famous for scene setting of almost hallucinatory vividness, but her ability to evoke inner landscapes of spellbinding intensity was even more remarkable. Frustrated lovers, acutely observed children, and even vengeful ghosts inhabit her tales with an urgency and emotional complexity that make it clear that the drama of human consciousness was her central subject. These stories are enduring testimony to Bowen's reputation as a creator of finely chiseled narratives--rich in imagination, psychological insight, and craft--that transcend their time and place.
Автор: Jessica Gildersleeve, Patricia Juliana Smith Название: Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things ISBN: 1474458645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474458641 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory
Provides new avenues for research in Bowen studies in ways that are concerned primarily with Bowen's perception of writing and narrative
Moves away from perceptions of Bowen's writing tied to existing ideological categories, such as viewing her work through a lens of psychoanalysis, modernism, or Irish or British history and which emphasise Bowen's innovation not as central to our understanding of the changes happening in twentieth-century literature and history, but as instead a point of 'difficulty'
Recognises Bowen's innovation, experimentation and her impact on her contemporaries and literary descendants
From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing style and attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone.
Автор: Bowen, Elizabeth Название: House In Paris ISBN: 0099276488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099276487 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. In the course of a single day, the mystery surrounding Leopold, his parents, Henrietta`s agitated hostess and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs, come to light slowly and tantalisingly.
ООО "Логосфера " Тел:+7(495) 980-12-10 www.logobook.ru