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1	Blue Flower more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald A beautiful new cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, learned in Dialectics and Mathematics, who later became the great romantic poet and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bookshop more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald A novel about Florence Green's battle against natural and supernatural influences, as she tries to open a bookshop in a small coastal town in East Anglia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Offshore more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1979 A lovely new cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgerald's award-winning comic novel. Offshore is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither...Maurice, a male ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.43! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Beginning of Spring more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Innocence more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald's best-loved novels Innocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Gate of Angels more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Knox Brothers more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald This is Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of her remarkable family. "When I was very young I took my uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else in the world was not like them." In this book, Penelope Fitzgerald turns her novelist's gaze on the quite extraordinary lives of her father and his three brothers. Within it we see ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Human Voices more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald New cover re-issue The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the Second World War, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC -- as elsewhere -- some had to fail and some had to die. It does not ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| first editions \| SVS
9	At Freddie's more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald, Brad Leithauser (Foreword by) 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. see all copies from $3.15! new only from $9.50! \| first editions
11	Golden Child more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald Beautiful re-issue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title -- her first novel The Golden Child, Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the 'Golden Child' at a London museum. Whilst the new exhibit lures thousands of curious spectators, it also becomes the sinister ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
12 view cover	Reading Power more books like this by James Isaac Brown 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Means of Escape more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Afterlife more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald, Terence Dooley (Editor) "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
15 view cover	Means of Escape: Stories more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald A collection of short stories from 'one of the finest and most entertaining novelists writing in England today' (Observer) * Penelope Fitzgerald is, now more than ever, one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch no other writer has been shortlisted for the Booker more often than Penelope ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald. by Penelope Fitzgerald by Penelope Fitzgerald 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 ... see all copies from $27.09! new only from $31.83!
17	Charlotte Mew and her friends more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $13.53! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald, Many Kirkby, Terence Dooley (Editor) From one of the best-loved contemporary novelists, previously uncollected essays on books, writers, places, and the author's own life and works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.75! \| first editions
19	The Knox Brothers: Edmund (Evoe), 1881-1971, Dillwyn, 1883-1943, Wilfred, 1886-1950, Ronald, 1888-1957 more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald, John Bayley (Introduction by) 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. see all copies from $4.64! new only from $12.43! \| SVS
21	Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $16.62! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs and Selected Writings more books like this by Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald (Editor), Robert Fitzgerald 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 ... see all copies from $4.68! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Bookshop: The Gate of Angels; The Blue Flower more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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. see all copies from $10.78! new only from $13.44! \| SVS
24 view cover	A house of air : selected writings by Penelope Fitzgerald The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer -- full of wit, feeling and illumination WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE 'Twice in your life you know that you are approved of by everyone: when you learn to walk and when you learn to read.' Surprising, wonderfully funny, definitive, this is a major collection of ... see all copies from $39.30! first editions
25 view cover	Three Novels: The Blue Flower; The Bookshop; Offshore more books like this by Penelope Fitzgerald 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" -- ... see all copies from $11.35! new only from $22.75! \| first editions

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