The Last September

Author: Bowen, Elizabeth, Glendinning, Victoria

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 14 May 1998 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Read Elizabeth Bowen’s accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNINGThe Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and flirtations with the English officers continue, undisturbed by the ambushes, arrests and burning country beyond the gates. Faint vibrations of discord reach the young girl Lois, who is straining for her own freedom, and she will witness the troubles surge closer and reach their irrevocable, inevitable climax.