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1	Hotel Du Lac more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Specially selected by Maura Healy, this series aims to offer an innovative and adventurous collection of texts that demonstrates the best of women's writing, both black and white. Complete texts reflecting a range of genres as well as different cultures and experiences are offered and the volumes contain study material and assignments at a range ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Incidents in the Rue Laugier more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Like many of Brookner's heroines, Maud feels compelled to escape the bourgeois world of her upbringing. Seduced, made pregnant, and abandoned by a visiting English cad, she agrees to marry the noble Edward, who feels he must rescue her from her plight, but their relationship, based on this shaky connection, becomes a mockery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Red lights more books like this by Georges Simenon, Norman Denny (Translator), Anita Brookner (Introduction by) add to wishlist It is Friday evening before Labor Day weekend. Americans are hitting the highways in droves; the radio crackles with warnings of traffic jams and crashed cars. Steve Hogan and his wife, Nancy, have a long drive ahead--from New York City to Maine, where their children are in camp. But Steve wants a drink before they go, and on the road he wants ... see all copies from $4.51! new only from $4.51! \| SVS
4	The Debut more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Brookner's heroine, Ruth Weiss, is a Balzac scholar with a quiet existence made up of mostly intellectual satisfactions. Now, as she enters middle age, she realizes that her preoccupations have stunted her life, and that things could, after all, be better--and will be, if she makes the leap into a new world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.57! \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Closed Eye more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up unguided, shrouded in an innocence that her friendship with Tessa, and later her marriage to Freddie, do nothing to dispel. Freddie is far older and disapproving of Tessa and her husband Jack. And yet all four are bound together. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Soundings: Studies in Art and Literature more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist This collection of essays chronicles the achievements of French painters, such as Gericault, Ingres and Delacroix, their stylistic and philosophical rivalries and disputes. In doing so, she confronts the complex clashes of the Romantic and Classical movements themselves. The book moves on to Rousseau, "The "Social Contract", examining his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
7	Making Things Better more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Julius Herz is 73, friendless, and lonely, and still in love with his cousin Fanny, who rejected him years before. Unexpectedly, she enters his life, widowed and poor, and expects Julius to care for her. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Brief Lives more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist A young woman gives up a promising singing career for the sake of a brilliant match. When her husband dies tragically young, she is forced into new relationships which radically change her views. Brookner has written several novels including "Hotel du Lac" which received the 1984 Booker Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Friend from England more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Anita Brookner, the master of character study, has captured the essence of the protagonist in this poignant tale of an independent, emotionally aloof young woman who gradually recognizes the terrible force of her own fear of invovlement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Family and Friends more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist This portrait of a Jewish family in London between the two world wars is more exuberant and less inner-directed than most of her novels, and more involved with world and its inevitable conflicts between parents and children, self and society, work and personal life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Misalliance more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist After twenty years of a marriage she had considered happy, Blanche Vernon's husband leaves her for a younger woman. Blanche tries to ignore the fact that her life is empty by "keeping busy" with good works, but she becomes more eccentric and more lost. She is almost reconciled to her fate when a surprise changes everything. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Altered states more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Shocked by the late re-marriage of his mother, Alan Sherwood submits to an unsatisfactory engagement to fragile, needy Angela. Yet he is haunted by memories of more carefree times in Paris with Sarah Miller. When Sarah re-enters his life, he willingly embarks on a futile act of betrayal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Visitors more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist A widow named Dorothea May, who is out of touch with life, is forced into intimacy with her relatives--particularly her untrustworthy cousins Kitty and Molly--during a family crisis. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Providence more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist The author's fourth novel is a portrait of an intelligent woman grappling with the questions of nationality, religion, identity, her place in the world and what to cook for dinner. Salvation is found in words, in the Romantic tradition and in literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Start in Life more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Dr Ruth Weiss, a celebrated authority on Balzac is now forty, and looks back on her London childhood, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs to tell the story of a life impassioned by literature, and she realises that once again she must make a start in life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Latecomers more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist This story is concerned with the lasting bond of friendship between two men and how their lives unfold, from the time when they are at boarding school together, to when they become husbands, then fathers, and in Hartmann's case a grandfather. Each is haunted by their past in their comfortable, bourgeois life in which everything is going well until ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Bay of Angels more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Zoë and her widowed mother lead a quiet life until Simon, a wealthy elderly man, changes their lives when he and Zoë's mother get married and move to Nice. But Zoë herself has romantic troubles, and then Simon dies, and her mother goes into a decline. Throughout all these events, Zoë struggles to make a life for herself. A New York Times Notable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Falling Slowly more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist The lives of two unhappy and disappointed sisters are followed over the course of many years, during which Beatrice gives up her career as a pianist, grows old, and dies, and Miriam becomes involved with a married man who never gives her what she desires--a conventional life as someone's wife. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Private View more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist From the award-winning novelist comes this novel following George Bland as he faces retirement alone and unsure. The unpredictable Katy Gibbs suddenly enters his life and Bland wants to believe that she offers him a last chance to abandon reason, discretion, and responsibility. Her motives veer away from his expectations in this novel about the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Strangers more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist A Man Booker Prize-winning author called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" by "The New York Times" returns with an exquisite novel about a man, three women, and a vibrant decision. see all copies from $8.99! new only from $12.99! \| SVS
21 view cover	Lewis Percy more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist By the author of "Hotel Du Lac" which won the 1984 Booker Prize, "Family and Friends" and "Latecomers", this novel concentrates on the life of one man who, via a course of events, finds his standards have changed and searches for an alternative lifeline which comes from an unexpected quarter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Undue Influence more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Look at Me more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Frances Hilton is befriended--and betrayed--by the hypocritical wife of one of her associates at the medical institute where she is a librarian. Unlucky in love, she turns to writing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Fraud more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist Anna Durrant, a spinster in her early 50s who has spent her life looking after her invalid mother, is missing. Her doctor, Lawrence Halliday, has reported this to the police who are asking questions. This novel is from the Booker Prize-winning author. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Leaving Home more books like this by Anita Brookner add to wishlist When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. She is not too dazzled to ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her formidable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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