Collected Stories: First Published in Three Individual Collections: The Wrong Set; Such Darling Dodos; a Bit Off the Map. And Including One Extra Story; the Eyes of the Peacock - Softcover

Wilson, Angus

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9780140159646: Collected Stories: First Published in Three Individual Collections: The Wrong Set; Such Darling Dodos; a Bit Off the Map. And Including One Extra Story; the Eyes of the Peacock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140159649 ISBN 13: 9780140159646

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

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A collection of short stories by the author of "Setting the World on Fire", "Late Call" and "As If By Magic".

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Book Description:

Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANGUS WILSON

'Bowen's stories show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul' Anne Tyler

Throughout 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 oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that 'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'.