Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570035616
Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald's canon illuminates writings he characterizes as possessing unerring dramatic judgment, a friendly and fluid style, and lyrical and precise descriptive passages. In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, Wolfe explains how the British novelist brings resources of talent and craft, thought and feeling, courage and vulnerability, to the biographies and novels that have earned her renown.
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HarperCollins publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Booksellers and bookseeking
ISBN : 9780008263027
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395859971
Romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his fathers permission to announce his engagement to his hearts desire: twelve-year-old Sophie. His astounded family and friends are amused and disturbed by his betrothal. What can he be thinking?
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HMH
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544227654
“A delectable comedy of manners” set in 1950s Florence, by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Bookshop (The Boston Globe). It’s 1955, and Italy is still struggling a decade after the end of World War II. So are the Ridolfis, a Florentine family of long and fading noble lineage. Like their decrepit villa, they’ve seen better days. Only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows anything like vitality—however impulsive and perilously naïve. Chiara has set her heart and her future on Salvatore Rossi, a brilliant, penniless young doctor and bull-headed son of a Communist, who has erased both politics and romance from his list of priorities. With her plans stymied, Chiara calls on her resourceful and meddlesome British girlfriend, Barney, to help make an impossible match. Now, out of good intentions and the most innocent of instincts, two guileless friends are going to make a series of astonishingly wrong moves in the name of love. From a winner of multiple major literary awards who was called “the best English novelist of her time” by Julian Barnes, Innocence is a novel “not just about Italians in love but of living and loving for all humans” (The Times). “As intoxicating as a shot of aged brandy.” —The Washington Post
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HMH
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1998-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 054752479X
Man Booker Prize Finalist: This “marvelous novel” about an abandoned husband, set in Moscow a century ago, is “bristling with wry comedy” (Newsday). March 1913. Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. English painter Frank Reid returns from work one night to find that his wife has gone away; no one knows where or why, or whether she’ll ever come back. All Frank knows for sure is that he is now alone and must find someone to care for his three young children. Into Frank’s life comes Lisa Ivanovna, a quiet, calming beauty from the country, untroubled to the point of seeming simple. But is she? And why has Frank’s bookkeeper, Selwyn Crane, gone to such lengths to bring these two together? From a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, this novel, with a new introduction by Andrew Miller, author of Pure, is filled with “writing so precise and lilting it can make you shiver” (Los Angeles Times). “Fitzgerald was the author of several slim, perfect novels. The Blue Flower and The Beginning of Spring both had me abuzz for days the first time I read them. She was curiously perfect.” —Teju Cole, author of Open City
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0006542549
"Introduction by Mark Damazer"--Page 1 of cover.
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395848388
In 1912, rational Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger--fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications--not only of the heart but also of the head--as Fred and Daisy take up each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside-down.
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007379595
A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope Fitzgerald
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395956182
Fitzgerald writes a story about the formidable proprietress of "Freddie's, " the Temple Stage School, which provides child actors for London's West End theaters, a promising child actor and his rival, and a man with wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency.
Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544228111
The Booker Prize-winning author’s final short story collection “shows her at the top of her form…exquisite”—with an introduction by A.S. Byatt (The Guardian, UK). Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the United Kingdom’s most highly-regarded contemporary authors. Her last novel, ‘The Blue Flower’, was the book of its year, garnering extraordinary acclaim around the world. This posthumous collection of her short stories, originally published in anthologies and newspapers, shows Penelope Fitzgerald at her very best. From the tale of a young boy in 17th-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide ranging, enigmatic—and very funny. Each one is a miniature study of human behavior’s endless absurdity.
