The Happy Autumn Fields

by Elizabeth Bowen

Genres: Short Stories, Horror

24 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1944

About the author

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.

Reviews

[Zoë Birss · Rating 2 out of 5]

Even as a short story, I found this overlong and unnecessarily wordy. The language and wordiness did fit the tone, I'll admit, of the upper crust fancy folk in the tale. But stories of upper crust fancy folk can often irritate me, so the tone in the wordiness only amplified the potential for my frustration. I understand this is the realm in which Bowen likes to write. Some love her. Some find her hit-and-miss. I'm not a fan.