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 [Browse]
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  • Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
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xxxiii, 418 pages ; 24 cm

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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.
    ISBN
    • 9780810131545 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0810131544 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780810131569 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0810131560 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016017430
    OCLC
    946770300
    Other standard number
    • 40026929818
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