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The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife,... Read Full Overview

"Brilliant.... A successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy."--The Times Literary Supplement

Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracy

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife,... Read Full Overview

2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Centered on the doomed world of Danielstown, The Last September is a sharply perceived comedy of manners set in the time of the Irish Troubles. The ambushes and burnings of the Irish Troubles seem far removed up at the 'Great House' where... Read Full Overview

Set in 1920s Ireland during the waning days of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, The Last September unfolds in the elegant but fading world of Danielstown, a country estate caught between leisure and looming unrest. Nineteen-year-old Lois Farquar, visiting her... Read Full Overview

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife,... Read Full Overview

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and... Read Full Overview

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and... Read Full Overview

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history. In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and... Read Full Overview