To the North
by Elizabeth Bowen
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- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
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About This Item
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen. 1945 first Penguin edition (c/r 1932) 286 pages. Bowen was an Irish-British novelist and To the North, about a love affair with tragic consequences, was one of her most acclaimed novels.
Condition: Foxing on the cover, chip to tail of spine, bent corner in bottom right of cover and pages, some rubbing on side of spine, exposed staples with some paper tearing around them on first couple pages, owner on half title page, in acceptable+ condition. Please see photos.
"Uncertain thoughts of home filled the station restaurant where the English sat lunching uneasily, facing the clock."
Synopsis
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. Her book Bowen's Court (1942) is the history of her family and their house, in County Cork. Throughout her life, she divided her time between London and Bowen's Court, which she inherited. She wrote many acclaimed novels and short story collections, was awarded the CBE in 1948, and was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973.
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- Bookseller
- Lightholder Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64
- Title
- To the North
- Author
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Penguin Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Vintage Penguin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectible Penguins; Fiction; Women Writers;
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