"Eva Trout Or Changing Scenes" 1969 BOWEN, Elizabeth Dioramas/ Shadowboxes

"Eva Trout Or Changing Scenes" 1969 BOWEN, Elizabeth Dioramas/ ShadowboxesBOWEN, Elizabeth [318] pp. Jonathan Cape 1969 7 5 8" x 5 1 2" Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowens last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary. Orphaned at a young age, Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles, and Iseult's husband, Eric. From a safe distance in London, her legal guardian, Constantine, assumes that all's well. But

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It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre

a story of the sole heirs of two families separated by an old feud and by cross country distance get married for a period of 60 days to prevent a disaster

Jacket design by Douglas Reil

This is a specially bound deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies

May 1973[204] pp

providing insight into the artistry involved in garden design

a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue

with horses jumping 30 fences over two laps

Arthur Schlesinger Jr

It was then that he collected books: literature

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