- Fiction in English, Classic fiction, Young women, Fiction
Story about the havoc wrought by inharmonious relationships in a middle-class English family.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Elizabeth Bowen
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 363
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Knopf, A.A. Knopf
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385720175
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About Elizabeth Bowen · 1899–1973
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
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