The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

Introduction by Angus Wilson FIRST STORIES Breakfast Daffodils The Return The Confidante Requiescat All Saints The New House Lunch The Lover Mrs Windermere The Shadowy Third The Evil That Men Do - Sunday Evening Coming Home THE TWENTIES Ann Lee's The Parrot The Visitor The Contessina Human Habitation The Secession Making Arrangements The Storm Charity The Back Drawing-Room Recent Photograph Joining Charles The Jungle Shoes: An International Episode The Dancing-Mistress Aunt Tatty Dead Mabelle The Working Party Foothold The Cassowary Telling Mrs Moysey THE THIRTIES The Tommy Crans The Good Girl The Cat Jumps The Last Night in the Old House The Disinherited Maria Her Table Spread The Little Girl's Room Firelight in the Flat The Man of the Family The Needlecase The Apple Tree Reduced Tears, Idle Tears A Walk in the Woods A Love Story Look at All Those Roses Attractive Modern Homes The Easter Egg Party Love No. 16 A Queer Heart The Girl with the Stoop THE WAR YEARS Unwelcome Idea Oh, Madam... Summer Night In the Square Sunday Afternoon The Inherited Clock The Cheery Soul Songs My Father Sang Me The Demon Lover Careless Talk The Happy Autumn Fields Ivy Gripped the Steps Pink May Green Holly Mysterious Kôr The Dolt's Tale POST-WAR STORIES I Hear You Say So Gone Away Hand in Glove A Day in the Dark Bibliographical Note