The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

Throughout these 79 stories - of love, childhood, of English middle-class life in the 1920s and 30s, of London during the Blitz - the author combines social comedy and reportage.


Genre: Literary Fiction

"If there is anything to the catchphrase "felt life", it is here...Many of her stories start like Saki and end like Edgar Allan Poe. It is that paradox which gives the edge to her writing and contributes to the sharpness of her vison." - Peter Ackroyd