The Classic Collection of Elizabeth Bowen brings together thirty-five of the author’s most acclaimed novels and stories in one beautifully illustrated volume. This definitive edition offers a sweeping view of Bowen’s distinctive literary voice—elegant, ironic, psychologically rich—and her remarkable ability to illuminate the quiet tensions of modern life.
The collection includes the full texts of her celebrated novels The Hotel and The Last September, as well as a generous selection of her finest short stories, such as Breakfast, Daffodils, The Return, and many more. Through these works, Bowen explores themes of memory, displacement, emotional restraint, and the invisible forces that shape personal relationships.
Set in grand houses, boarding schools, hotels, and war-shadowed cities, Bowen’s fiction often focuses on characters navigating transitional spaces—between youth and adulthood, peace and war, past and present. Her prose is precise and lyrical, her dialogue filled with subtext, and her plots understated yet quietly powerful.
A must-have for readers of modernist literature and classic fiction, The Classic Collection of Elizabeth Bowen is a timeless tribute to one of the most original literary minds of the 20th century.
Contents:
•Novels
-The Hotel
-The Last September
•Stories
-Breakfast
-Daffodils
-The Return
-The Confidante
-Requiescat
-All Saints
-The New House
-Lunch
-The Lover
-Mrs Windermere
-The Shadowy Third
-The Evil that Men Do —
-Sunday Evening
-Coming Home
-Human Habitation
-The Secession
-Making Arrangements
-The Storm
-Charity
-The Back Drawing-Room
-Recent Photograph
-Joining Charles
-The Jungle
-Shoes: An International Episode
-The Dancing-Mistress
-Aunt Tatty
-Dead Mabelle
-The Working Party
-Foothold
-The Cassowary
-Telling
-Mrs Moysey
