Download or read book Collected Stories written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that 'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'.