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The weight of a world of feeling : reviews and essays / by Elizabeth Bowen ; edited and with an introduction by Allan Hepburn.
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Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
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Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
©2017
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xxxiii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
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Hepburn, Allan
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"Elizabeth Bowen began reviewing books in August 1935. By that time she was already an experienced fiction writer with four short story collections and four novels to her credit. Her fifth novel, 'The house in Paris, ' was published on 26 August 1935, just nine days after her first book review appeared in 'The new statesman.' She reviewed regularly for that journal, known for its commitment to leftist politics, until 1943. At the same time, she accepted requests to review for 'Purpose, ' 'The spectator, ' 'The listener, ' 'The bell, ' 'The observer, ' and other publications. From 1941 until 1950, and again from 1954 until 1958, she filed weekly columns for 'The tatler' and 'Bystander.' Especially after she began to travel time to the US in the 1950s, she was asked to review books for The New York Times Book Review and The New York Herald Tribune. This fascinating collection of reviews is filled with first impressions of novels, autobiographies, memoirs, illustrated books, biographies of politicians and artists, short story collections, and literary criticism. Books spark statements from Bowen about general principles of fictional technique; she articulates her understanding of the inner workings of fiction incidentally, while providing an opinion about the book at hand. In this volume, Hepburn draws together all the reviews that Bowen left uncollected in her non-fiction collections, as well as several more familiar essays that that she published in 'The tatler, ' in order to make them accessible to a broader audience."-- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-405) and index.
Contents
Machine-generated contents note: Techniques Of The Novel
Advice to a Young Writer
English and American Writing
On Writing The Heat of the Day
Note for The Broadsheet on The Heat of the Day
Publisher's Blurb for The Heat of the Day
The Technique of the Novel
We Write Novels: An Interview with Walter Allen
Reviews: 1935 To 1942
New Novels, August 17, 1935
New Novels, August 31, 1935
New Novels, September 14, 1935
New Novels, September 28, 1935
New Novels, October 12, 1935
New Novels, October 26, 1935
New Novels, April 11, 1936
The Weather in the Streets, July 11, 1936
This Freedom, October 31, 1936
Short Stories, December 5, 1936
An Unknown Society, April 28, 1937
Ben Jonson, May 8, 1937
Agreeable Reading, October 9, 1937
Two Ways to Travel, October 13, 1937
Then and Now, September 17, 1938
Overtures to Death, Winter 1938
New Novels, January-March 1939
Gusto, February 25, 1939
Fiction, April-June 1939
Fiction, July-September 1939
Fiction, October-December 1939
Fiction, January-March 1940
Fiction, April-June 1940
Fiction, July-December 1940
Come Back to Erin, December 1940
The Perfect Theatregoer, January 3, 1941
Advance in Formation, March 14, 1941
Portrait of the Artist, March 14, 1941
An Invitation to Think, July 25, 1941
Flaubert Translated, August 15, 1941
Truths about Ireland, September 5, 1941
Life and Letters Today, January 1942
Dubliner, May 1, 1942
Contemporary, May 23, 1942
Selected Tatler Reviews! 1941 to 1950
Margery Allingham, The Oaken Heart, October 1, 1941
William Shirer, Berlin Diary, October 22, 1941
Upton Sinclair, Between Two Worlds, November 19, 1941
Osbert Sitwell, Open the Door, December 3, 1941
James Agate, Thursdays and Fridays: A Book for Everyday People, December 31, 1941
Maurice Richardson, London's Burning, January 28, 1942
Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags, March 25, 1942
Warren Stuart, The Sword and the Net, April 8, 1942
Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth, June 24, 1942
Siegfried Sassoon, The Weald of Youth, November 25, 1942
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, December 23, 1942
Ethel Vance, Reprisal, April 21, 1943
Sergei Eisenstein, The Film Sense, June 16, 1943
Samuel Richardson, Pamela; Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility; Ivan Turgenev, Liza, July 28, 1943
Eudora Welty, A Curtain of Green, August 11, 1943
G. Fortune and W. Fortune, Hitler Divided France, August 25, 1943
Sacheverell Sitwell, Splendours and Miseries, January 12, 1944
Barbara Nixon, Raiders Overhead: The Record of a London Warden, February 23, 1944
J.L. Hodson, Home Front, March 1, 1944
Frank O'Connor, Crab Apple Jelly, May 17, 1944
Mulk Raj Anand, The Barbers' Trade Union, August 2, 1944
James Joyce, Stephen Hero, August 16, 1944
Noel Barber, Prisoner of War, September 20, 1944
Rosamond Lehmann, The Ballad and the Source, October 11, 1944
Charles Morgan, Reflections in a Mirror, January 17, 1945
T.S. Eliot, What Is a Classic? March 7, 1945
Bill Naughton, A Roof over Your Head, March 21, 1945
Roland Penrose, In the Service of the People, April 18, 1945
Stephen Spender, Citizens in War
and After; Rumer Godden, A Fugue in Time, June 6, 1945
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, June 13, 1945
J.B. Priestley, Three Men in New Suits, July 11, 1945
Cyril Connolly, The Condemned Playground, January 23, 1946
Robert Henrey, The Siege of London, February 6, 1946
V.S. Pritchett, It May Never Happen, February 13, 1946
Francois Mauriac, A Woman of the Pharisees, April 24, 1946
Richard Aldington, Editor, Great French Romances, May 15, 1946
Elias Canetti, Auto-Da-Fe, July 10, 1946
Remy, Le Livre du courage et de la peur, October 9, 1946
Josephine W. Johnson, Wildwood, January 29, 1947
Edmond Buchet, Children of Wrath, March 5, 1947
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason, April 16, 1947
Mary Renault, Return to Night, August 20, 1947
Elizabeth Taylor, A View of the Harbour, September 24, 1947
Frank O'Connor, The Common Chord, December 17, 1947
William Sansom, Something Terrible, Something Lovely, April 28, 1948
Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, June 2, 1948
Neil Bell, The Governesss at Ashburton Hall, July 28, 1948
Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami, August 4, 1948
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others, September 15, 1948
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Men and Wives and More Men Than Women, February 9, 1949
Benjamin Constant, Adolphe, February 16, 1949
Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence; P.H. Newby, The Snow Pasture, March 2, 1949
Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses; Angus Wilson, The Wrong Set, April 6, 1949
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, May 18, 1949
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, July 6, 1949
Francois Mauriac, The Desert of Love and The Enemy, December 21, 1949
Books And Occasions
Paris Bookshops
But Once a Year
Old America
Preface to A Day in the Dark
Autobiographies
Biographical Note
I Love Driving at Night
How I Write My Novels
Miss Bowen on Miss Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, of Cork and London
My Best Novel
Autobiographical Note
Selected Tatler Reviews! 1954 to 1958
Denis Johnston, Nine Rivers from Jordan, January 20, 1954
G.M. Trevelyan, A Layman's Love of Letters, March 31, 1954
Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare; James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, April 14, 1954
Sir Compton Mackenzie, Echoes, May 12, 1954
Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart, October 13, 1954
Somerset Maugham, Ten Novels and Their Authors, November 17, 1954
C.V. Wedgwood, The King's Peace, February 9, 1955
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son, February 16, 1955
Joyce Cary, Not Honour More, April 20, 1955
Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World, June 1, 1955
Evelyn Waugh, Officers and Gentlemen, July 6, 1955
Ithell Colquhoun, The Crying of the Wind, August 24, 1955
John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, September 28, 1955
Francois Mauriac, The Lamb, October 19, 1955
Graham Greene, The Quiet American, December 28, 1955
Mary Lavin, The Patriot Son, April 11, 1956
Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond, September 12, 1956
Francois Mauriac, Lines of Life, January 23, 1957
Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows, February 6, 1957
Elizabeth Coxhead, The Friend in Need, April 3, 1957
John Braine, Room at the Top, April 10, 1957
Jean Cabries, Jacob; Maurice Druon, The Last Detachment; Berthe Grimault, Beau Clown; Minou Drouet, First Poems, April 17, 1957
John Montgomery, The Twenties, May 1, 1957
H.E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman, May 8, 1957
Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, July 17, 1957
Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, July 31, 1957
Ivy Compton-Burnett, A Father and His Fate, August 28, 1957
Francoise Sagan, Those without Shadows, November 6, 1957
Anthony Powell, Ai Lady Molly's, December 4, 1957
Storm Jameson, A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill, December 11, 1957
Kingsley Amis, J Like It Here; Colette, Claudine in Paris, January 22, 1958
Stephen Spender, Engaged in Writing, February 5, 1958
May Sarton, The Birth of a Grandfather, April 2, 1958
William Faulkner, Uncle Willy and Other Stories, April 23, 1958
Last Reviews: 1948 to 1971
Heart or Soul?
Salt on the Lips
Downfall
The Young May Moon
For D.H. Lawrence, Life Was Not Peace But a Sword
Life in the Irish Counties
The Land Behind
Books in General
Exploring Ireland
A City Growing
Ascendancy
A Man and His Legend
Three Novels by an English Writer with a Keen and Sardonic Eye
In Spite of the Words
Mind and Temperament
The Informer
Out of the World of Dickens Comes This Memoir of a Bitter Childhood
A Haunting, Enchanting Story Set in Budapest
Welsh, and Quite Explosive
The Long Arm of Chance in Life's Tangle
Second Home
Wonders of a Traveller's World
All People Great and Small
Kindred and Affinity
Gifts for the Gaffe
Dickens and the Demon Toy Box
Ireland Agonistes.
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ISBN
9780810131545 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0810131544 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780810131569 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0810131560 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016017430
OCLC
946770300
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40026929818
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