ISBN: 9780486854571 - the last september (dover thrift editions: classic novels) (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all know that the end is approaching--the end of British rule in the south of Ireland and the demise of a way of life that had survived for centuries. Their niece, Lois Farquar, attempts to live her own life and gain her own freedoms from the very class that her elders are vainly defending. The Last September depicts the tensions between love and the longing for freedom, between tradition and the terrifying prospect of independence, both political and spiritual. Brilliant. A successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy.--The Times Literary Supplement (London).…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.00x5.00x7.90 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Elizabeth Bowen vividly captures the decline of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy during the Irish War of Independence through the lens of the Naylor family and their 19-year-old niece, Lois Farquar, illuminating the tension between tradition and modernity.