Encounters (Bowen)

Encounters (1923)
by Elizabeth Bowen

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A collection of short stories. This is the first edition, published in 1923; a later edition was published in 1949 and 1950.

Encounters: Stories
by Elizabeth Bowen

Boni and Liveright
Publishers⁠New York

To M. J.

Contents
		Page
Breakfast	⁠	1
Daffodils		15
The Return		31
The Confidante		48
Requiescat		60
All Saints		80
The New House		91
Lunch		105
The Lover		116
Mrs. Windermere		130
The Shadowy Third		141
The Evil that Men do—		161
Sunday Evening		176
Coming Home		191

Printed for Boni and Liveright
in Great Britain

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1973, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.