The Bazaar and Other Stories - Hardcover

Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748635718 ISBN 13: 9780748635719

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This volume brings together the previously uncollected stories of this exceptional modernist writer, from fairy tale to fable and social drama.Covering a range of situations--broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime--these previously uncollected stories demonstrate the virtuosity that characterizes all of Elizabeth Bowen's writing."The Lost Hope" ranks with the best of her war stories. Shattering the lives of soldiers and civilians alike, the war cancels the promise shown by the generation that came of age in the 1940s. Yet the war also clears a path to the future, as happens in "Comfort and Joy" and "The Last Bus." Humour in these tales ranges from the sardonic to the light-hearted. In the title story, "The Bazaar," Captain Winch begs everyone for pins and ends up stealing some. With this collection, Bowen, gifted with keen social observation, justifies her place in the company of D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce.

About this title

About the Author:

Allan Hepburn is Associate Professor of English at the McGill University in Montreal

Review:

[Allan Hepburn's] scholarly detective work is accompanied by extensive annotations and a very useful introduction, and, in addition, he has reproduced a number of Bowen's unpublished stories. The unpublished stories are, for the most part, as good as the published ones; it seems as if Bowen was incapable of writing a dull short story. Many of these stories have...continued resonance...funds of unexpended feeling and, overall, the republication of these important Bowen stories will add greatly to her literary reputation. Irish Times [Allan Hepburn's] scholarly detective work is accompanied by extensive annotations and a very useful introduction, and, in addition, he has reproduced a number of Bowen's unpublished stories. The unpublished stories are, for the most part, as good as the published ones; it seems as if Bowen was incapable of writing a dull short story. Many of these stories have...continued resonance...funds of unexpended feeling and, overall, the republication of these important Bowen stories will add greatly to her literary reputation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0748635718
• ISBN 13: 9780748635719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Hepburn Allan