(1959, Paperback) FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION
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FROM THE BACK COVER:
Eighteen short stories from
IVY GRIPPED THE STEPS
LOOK AT ALL THOSE ROSES,
and EARLY STORIES
with a Preface by Elizabeth Bowen
"What kind of stories does, or did Elizabeth Bowen write? This Vintage volume should be the answer. Some idea of the range of subjects, of the technique and its variations, of the imaginative quality, and so on.
More than half of my life is under the steadying influence of the novel, with its calmer, stricter, more orthodox demands; into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate hero-isms, 'immortal longings.' "
From Miss Bowen's Preface
"Any book by Elizabeth Bowen is an event. ...She is one of the most knowing and subtle of modern writers ... delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. Miss Bowen's touch is as light as fine porcelain, as sudden as the crack of a whip
From TIME's review of IVY GRIPPED THE STEPS