Covering a range of situations - broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime - these previously uncollected stories demonstrate the virtuosity that characterizes all of Elizabeth Bowen's writing.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was a leading Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Her writing was influenced both by Henry James and by modernist writers. She is best known for her novels of the 1930s, her war novel, The Heat of the Day (1949), and her short stories of the London Blitz.

Allan Hepburn is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal. He has also edited The Bazaar and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen and People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen, both published by Edinburgh University Press.

Introduction; Uncollected Short Stories; Salon des Dames; Moses; "Just Imagine . . ."
Pink Biscuit; Flavia; She Gave Him; Brigands; The Unromantic Princess; Comfort and Joy
The Good Earl; The Lost Hope; I Died of Love; So Much Depends; Emergency in the Gothic Wing; The Claimant; Candles in the Window; Happiness; Unpublished and Unfinished Short Stories; The Bazaar; Miss Jolley Has No Plans for the Future; The Man and the Boy; Story Scene; Flowers Will Do; The Last Bus; Fairies at the Christening;
Christmas Games; Home for Christmas; Ghost Story; Women in Love; Notes; Works Cited.