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The Last September

The Last September

Bowen, Elizabeth

Paperback

Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $9.00

ISBN10: 0486854574
ISBN13: 9780486854571
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Brilliant.... A successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy.--The Times Literary Supplement

Elizabeth Bowen masterfully depicts the Anglo-Irish aristocracy's decline during the Irish War of Independence. Set in the 1920s on a vast country estate, the novel portrays the social and political turbulence through the lens of the Naylor family. Bowen's nuanced characterization and vivid descriptions paint a poignant picture of a world of wealth filled with tennis parties and army camp dances--on the brink of disintegration. Nineteen-year-old Lois Farquar embodies the tensions between tradition and modernity in an existential coming-of-age crisis as she navigates personal and societal upheaval. Bowen skillfully encapsulates Lois's transition from adolescence to adulthood. The Last September is a compelling read exploring identity, the inevitable passage of time, and the fight for freedom--both political and spiritual.

[Elizabeth Bowen] is one of the handful of great...novelists of this century. --The Washington Post.

Had Elizabeth Bowen been a man she would be recognised as one of the finest novelists of the 20th century. John Banville--The Irish Times

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