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Älskaren som var demon och andra berättelser
Häftad, 2018
33 kr
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Krigstidens London under bombningarna, det explosiva fysiska rummet såväl som känslorna och föreställningarna, har väl aldrig skildrats med sådan ingående intensitet som hos Elizabeth Bowen. Då inte minst i Älskaren som var demon och andra berättelser [ The Demon Lover and Other Stories , 1945], …
Death Of The Heart
Häftad, 1998
152 kr
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'One of the best novels about a young woman that I’ve ever read' Greta GerwigWhen sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once …
Death of the Heart
Häftad, 2000
271 kr
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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 …
Heat of the Day
Häftad, 1998
152 kr
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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 …
Heat of the Day
E-bok, 2015
100 kr
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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 …
Heat of the Day
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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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 …
Hjärtats död
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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»Man avslutar Hjärtats död med den där känslan som litteratur numera så sällan framkallar - att livet på ett mystiskt sätt förstorats.« | The N ew Yorker Portia Quayne, 16 år och föräldralös, måste flytta till sin halvbror Thomas förmögna hem i London. Han och hustrun Anna är allt annat än …
Bowen's Court & Seven Winters
Häftad, 1999
165 kr
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Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of the Protestant Irish gentry whose lives were …
Time in Rome
Häftad, 2003
164 kr
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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. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their often bloody activities …
Last September, The Death of the Heart
Inbunden, 2026
239 kr
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Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity …
Into the London Fog
Eerie Tales from the Weird City
Av Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
150 kr
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As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rumours abound of an opening to another world among …
The Last September; The Death of the Heart
Inbunden, 1900
458 kr
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In one hardcover volume—the two most popular novels by one of the greatest twentieth-century novelists, whose psychologically rich stories of lost innocence combine sharp humor with a devastating gift for exposing hidden motivations The Last September is a portrait of a young woman’s coming-of-age …
Hjärtats död
Av Carl-Johan Malmberg, Elizabeth Bowen
E-bok, 2018
119 kr
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Portia Quayne, 16 år och föräldralös, måste flytta till sin halvbror Thomas förmögna hem i London. Han och hustrun Anna är allt annat än förtjusta över att hysa avkomman från den vanärade Quayne den äldres andra äktenskap. Portia möter inte bara känslokyla riktad mot sig: i detta hem tycks alla, …
Mulberry Tree
Av Elizabeth Bowen, Hermione Lee
E-bok, 2015
147 kr
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This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of London in wartime and of the Irish 'big house', and penetrating accounts of some of her most famous contemporaries. It also …
Last September
Häftad, 1998
139 kr
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Read Elizabeth Bowen’s accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNINGThe Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and flirtations with the English officers continue, undisturbed by the ambushes, arrests and burning country …
House in Paris
Häftad, 1998
139 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.S. BYATTWhen eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be …
Hotel
Häftad, 2003
139 kr
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It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of social niceties, for passionate but …
Shelbourne
Häftad, 2001
139 kr
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Elizabeth Bowen takes us on a tour through the history of the famous Dublin landmark, the Shelbourne Hotel, in this evocative account of Irish life. Looking out on Dublin as if from the windows of the Shelbourne, and then turning inward to witness the impact of events on the hotel, its guests and …
Collected Stories
Häftad, 1999
190 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSONThroughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an …
Eva Trout
Häftad, 1999
135 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYImposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; 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 …
To The North
Häftad, 1999
152 kr
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Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater. Markie's appearance …
Hotel
Häftad, 2024
102 kr
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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.
World of Love
E-bok, 2019
142 kr
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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 …
Little Girls
E-bok, 2019
110 kr
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In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings the women reluctantly together again. Dinah has grown from a …
