The Heat of the Day

Elizabeth Bowen

earliest edition we have, 1949 Avon Books, 1979

Penguin Modern Classics

**Wartime London, where the 'hot yellow sands of each screen's bring little relief from the fears of the night before and the dead—alive yesterday—still inhabit the city.** A new intimacy evolves among those who have not fled, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella is part of this society. Living in strange rooms, she holds on to the past and weaves the present around Rob...

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Editions we hold

The heat of the day edition · 2002 · Anchor Books · 372 pages
The Heat of the Day paperback · 1998 · Vintage · 329 pages · 9780099276463
The Heat of the Day (Twentieth Century Classics) paperback · 1990 · Penguin Classics · 336 pages · 9780140183016
Heat of the Day hardcover · 1990 · Buccaneer Books · 9780899662596
The Heat of the Day (Modern Classics) paperback · 1987 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 336 pages · 9780140088533
The heat of the day edition · 1985 · Penguin Books in association with J. Cape · 329 pages
The heat of the day edition · 1982 · Jonathan Cape · 284 pages
Heat of the Day edition · 1979 · Avon Books · 9780380423095
The heat of the day edition · 1962 · Penguin · 330 pages

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