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  • The Demon Lover
    Elizabeth Bowen / Tim Zengerink
    What if the past you buried waited patiently to return-and collect?The Demon Lover is a chilling short story that defined mid-20th century psychological horror. Originally published during World War II, Elizabeth Bowen’s masterpiece explores how war fractures not only nations, but the inner world of those who survive it.Mrs. Drover, a middle-aged woman returning to her long-des...
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    14,24 €

  • How a Farthing Made a Fortune
    C. E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Bowen
    'How a Farthing Made a Fortune' or 'Honesty is the best policy' by C. E. Bowen is a classic children’s story exploring the virtues of honesty and the consequences of theft. This juvenile fiction title delves into important social themes, offering a timeless lesson about moral character.A compelling narrative unfolds, illustrating the profound impact of even the smallest dishone...
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    17,33 €

  • The Last September
    Elizabeth Bowen
    2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Centered on the doomed world of Danielstown, The Last September is a sharply perceived comedy of manners set in the time of the Irish Troubles. The ambushes and burnings of the Irish Troubles seem far removed up at the ’Great House’ where they are preoccupied by the tennis-parties and dances, not to mention flirtations with English officers fro...
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    14,81 €

  • Air and Ground Poems
    Elizabeth Ann Bowen
    Air and Ground Poems is a compilation of poems from Elizabeth Ann Bowen. Composed over the course of several years spanning youth to adulthood, the collection includes haikus, limerick, a sonnet, and some free verse. The poems range in mood from funny to sad, whereas some are introspective and thought provoking. While each poem is a reflection of Elizabeth’s beliefs and ideas, ...
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    12,68 €

  • Encounters
    Elizabeth Bowen
    The publication of Encounters in1923 launched what would become a luminous forty-year writing career that spanned the advent of modernist literature, the Second World War, and the fraught years preceding the political turmoil of “the Troubles” in Ireland. These gem-like stories display Elizabeth Bowen’s uncanny ability to represent un-belonging, dispossession, and the fragility...
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    9,19 €

  • The Shelbourne
    Elizabeth Bowen
    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 staff Bowen paints a picture of what was in the hotel’s earlier days the second...
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    14,71 €

  • The Little Girls
    Elizabeth Bowen
    In 1914 they had been eleven years old; three little girls at St Agatha’s a day school on the South Coast. Fifty years later Dinah beautiful as ever advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two Clare now established with a successful business and Sheila a married woman glossy chic and correct. Can friendship can be taken up where it was left off? What a...
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    23,84 €

  • The Mulberry Tree
    Elizabeth Bowen
    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 contains her autobiography posthumously published and left tantalising unfinished ...
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    23,51 €