In THE BLUE FLOWER, Fitzgerald tells the story of an idealistic man who is the lover and mentor of a 12-year-old girl with whom he is obsessed. Upon her death three years later, she becomes his muse. This novel is based on the life of the German romantic poet Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801), whose major work was a novel describing ...
The first and only short-story collection by Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in April, 2000. Like all Fitzgerald's acclaimed fiction, her stories examine the absurdity of human life, and, as she put it herself, "the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities." A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
New cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel shortlisted for the 1988 booker prize Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, ...
OFFSHORE is a love story set among a community of barge-dwellers on the Thames, where Fitzgerald herself lived with her family in the 1960s. The novel won the Booker Prize in 1979. THE GATE OF ANGELS, also known as THE BLUE FLOWER, tells the story of an idealistic man who is the lover and mentor of a 12-year-old girl with whom he is obsessed. ...
Florence Green, a widow, opens a bookshop in a small Suffolk town and this sets in motion a series of events through which the author portrays the town and its inhabitants as less sunny and innocent then they initially appear. A New York Times Notable Book for 1997, THE BOOKSHOP was also short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Originally published in 1980, Fitzgerald's novel takes place in 1940 London and involves a group of BBC employees who must carry on no matter what's happening in the real world--the world of the blitz, in which Germany is expected to invade at any moment.
Novelist Penelope Fitzgerald writes about two generations of her fascinatingly eccentric intellectual family, which included her grandfather, Edmund Knox, who became the Bishop of Manchester; Edwin Knox, her father, the editor of Punch; and Dillwyn Knox, her uncle, a Greek scholar turned cryptographer who helped crack the Nazis' Enigma codes ...
THE GOLDEN CHILD is Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel, published when she was 60 years old. As Fitzgerald told The New Yorker in an interview (02/07/2000), "It was supposed to be a thriller, but it wasn't really considered thrilling enough." The plot--quite thrilling enough, according to critics and fans--involves the acquisition of an ancient ...
Novelist Penelope Fitzgerald writes about two generations of her fascinatingly eccentric intellectual family, which included her grandfather, Edmund Knox, who became the Bishop of Manchester; Edwin Knox, her father, the editor of Punch; and Dillwyn Knox, her uncle, a Greek scholar turned cryptographer who helped crack the Nazis' Enigma codes ...
A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist -- and prolific correspondent -- Penelope Fitzgerald Acclaimed for her exquisitely elegant novels -- including the Booker Prize-winning 'Offshore' -- and superb biographies, Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most admired authors in Britain during the last century. 'So I Have ...
"A good book," wrote John Milton, "is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." In this generous posthumous collection of her literary essays and reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald celebrates the "life beyond life" of dozens of master-spirits--their afterlife not only in the pages of their ...
A lighthearted love story set among English scientists at the turn of the century. Fred Fairly is a Fellow of St. Angelicus College in Cambridge in 1912, studying physics. In the midst of a religious crisis, he meets and falls in love with Daisy Saunders, a nursing student, but is discouraged from marrying her since only bachelors are permitted ...
Gathered together for the first time are three of Penelope Fitzgerald's most beloved novels: The Blue Flower, The Bookshop, and Offshore. The Blue Flower: Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the eleven best books of 1997, this magical novel recounts the curious obsession of the Romantic poet Novalis for his one "true philosophy" -- ...
This biography, first published in 1975, gave Edward Burne-Jones his due as a major late-Romantic figure of European stature, whose intense artistic vision still has a great appeal today. This detailed account of his life is a means to understanding his pictures.
This collection of Fitzgerald's works features novels of British barge-dwellers in the 1960s, the BBC during World War II, and an English printer and his children living in Moscow during the Russian Revolution. Ribbon marker.
A mid-level text, the Sixth Edition of Reading Power balances timed readings with extensive instructional guidance and pedagogical support. Students calculate their reading rate by timing themselves, and test their comprehension by answering Getting the Facts, Getting the Meaning, and other questions. Leaning on Context and Making the Words Yours ...
New cover re-issue In the 1960s, Freddie's was the usual name for the Temple Stage School, which supplied the West End theatres with children for roles in everything from Shakespeare to pantomime. Freddie, the proprietress, is a formidable woman, of unknown age and provenance. But everybody who is anybody claims to know her. By sheer force of ...
Born in 1869, Charlotte Mew grew up in Victorian Bloomsbury in genteel poverty, and established herself as a poet and prose-writer during the stimulating innovative period running from John Lane's "Yellow Book" to Harold Munro's bookshop. Like Virginia Woolf, who was one of her earliest admirers, Charlotte was a tormented person, and in addition, ...
Written as part of the Radcliffe Biography Series, this is an account of the life of Charlotte Mew, an English poet who committed suicide in 1928. A selection of Mew's poetry, edited by Fitzgerald, is included.
A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works by the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer -- full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her warmth, humour and supreme storytelling abilities ...
A 16th-century tale and a modern one converge in this novel, set in Italy, about a midget noblewoman from the past, and a woman who falls in love with a doctor in the 1950s.
The memoirs and essays collected in The Third Kind of Knowledge encompass the many lives of a remarkable man. Poet, translator, critic, journalist, memoirist, scholar - the late Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) had an unusual range of gifts and lived a strikingly varied life in the literary and academic world. While growing up, his scholarly promise ...
This biography traces Edward Burne-Jones's life and suggests a deeper understanding of his work. It tells of his beginnings as a solitary child in Birmingham, the only son of a not too successful picture-framer, and his formative years at Oxford where, with William Morris, he felt the powerful influence of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1860 ...
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