Elizabeth Bowen is a writer of authority and distrinction, and her critical work is characterised by balance, by an ability to isolate and convey to the reader the essential quality of the book under discussion and, above all, by the exceptional sensibility which colours all her writing. Perhaps the most valuable pieces in this book are the prefaces and disquisitions on the novel. These are accompanied by descriptions of places at particular times which the author offers as contemporary margin notes on history' and by reviews remarkable both for their subject matter and the way in which past and contemporary writers are criticised with equal grace and appreiciation.
Condition: Hardcover, cloth. 269pp. Fine in Near Fine price-clipped, lightly soiled dust jacket.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen.
Published: 1950.