The bazaar and other stories
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The bazaar and other stories
Edinburgh University Press, c2008
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-377)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A prolific writer of short stories, Elizabeth Bowen claimed towards the end of her life that "a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible." Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these stories demonstrate the virtuosity of technique that characterizes all of 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." Bowen's characters live in the grip of intense circumstances. They respond ardently or ironically to their dilemmas, and sometimes both at once, as does sulky, big-limbed Doris Simonez in "Flowers Will Do." If some of the children in these stories are too wise for their age, like the punctual protagonist of "The Unromantic Princess," adults occasionally behave with no insight at all into their actions. 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. Lady Hottenham gives an impromptu little speech that drifts agonizingly into cliche. The fairy tales, fables, and social dramas in this volume were never gathered together during Bowen's lifetime; a few exist only in unfinished draft. 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. Key Features: *Brings together for the first time Bowen's uncollected short stories *Demonstrates the diversity of Bowen's short fiction across her writing career *The stories cover familiar Bowen themes of marriage, travel, estrangement, disappointment and disinheritance *Completes the picture of Bowen as a compelling writing of the short story
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Uncollected Short Stories
- Salon des Dames
- Moses
- "Just Imagine ..." Pink Biscuit
- Flavia
- She Gave Him
- Brigands
- The Unromantic Princess
- Comfort and Joy The Good Earl
- The Lost Hope
- I Died of Love
- So Much Depends
- Emergency in the Gothic Wing
- The Claimant
- Candles in the Window
- Happiness
- Unpublished and Unfinished Short Stories
- The Bazaar
- Miss Jolley Has No Plans for the Future
- The Man and the Boy
- Story Scene
- Flowers Will Do
- The Last Bus
- Fairies at the Christening
- Christmas Games
- Home for Christmas
- Ghost Story
- Women in Love
- Notes
- Works Cited.
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