People, places, things : essays /: essays. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Elizabeth Bowen ; edited with an introduction by Allan Hepburn.
• Other Names: Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973; Hepburn, Allan
• Contents: 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, by Ronald and Frank Jessup ; 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 impressions 3 ; Prague and the crisis ; Hungary ; Without coffee, cigarettes, or feeling ; Regent's Park and St. John's Wood ; New York waiting in my memory -- People. Miss Willis ; Paul Morand ; Mainie Jellett ; Foreword to Olive Willis and Downe House, by Anne Ridler -- 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, by Sheridan Le Fanu -- Things. Toys ; Calico windows ; Introduction to The ABC of millinery, by Eva Ritcher ; The teakettle ; On giving a present ; The art of giving ; Mirrors are magic -- Writers and their books. Jane Austen ; Introduction to Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen ; What Jane Austen means to me ; Persuasion ; Introduction to No one to blame, by H.M. Taylor ; James Joyce ; New writers ; Guy de Maupassant ; Foreword to Tomato Cain and other stories, by Nigel Kneale ; Foreword to Haven: short stories, poems and aphorisms, by Elizabeth Bibesco ; 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, by Rose Macaulay. Fairy tales. Comback of Goldilocks et al. ; Introduction to The king of the Golden River, by John Ruskin ; Enchanted centenary of the Brothers Grimm -- On writing. What we need in writing ; The short story in England ; Introduction to Chance ; Introduction 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 ; Disappointment 2 ; How to be yourself, but not eccentric ; The thread of dreams.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 467 pages)
• Subjects: 824.912; English essays -- 20th century; LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays; English essays; Werk; Electronic books; Essay
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748635702; 9780748635689; 0748635688; 1282059025; 9781282059023
• Related ISBNs: 074863570X; 0748635696; 9780748635696
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-467).; Note: Print version record.
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