Penelope Fitzgerald

Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395859971
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Flower written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : HarperCollins publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780008263027
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookshop written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by HarperCollins publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780395478042
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshore written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics lives in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel. Winner of a 1997 Booker Prize.

Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054752479X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Spring written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by HMH. This book was released on 1998-09-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395848388
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gate of Angels written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0006542549
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Voices written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction by Mark Damazer"--Page 1 of cover.

Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544227654
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innocence written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544227697
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Freddie's written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A London theater school resists the cultural shifts of the 1960s in this novel by the Booker Prize-winning author—with an introduction by Simon Callow. It is the 1960s, and London’s West End theaters all rely on Freddie Wentworth, the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School, to supply them with child actors for their productions of everything from Shakespeare to musicals to Christmas pantomimes. Of unknown age and origin, Freddie is a skirt-swathed enigma—a woman who by sheer force of character has turned herself and her school into a national institution. But as the cultural revolution transforms London, not even Freddie can keep its influence at bay. Basing this intimate novel on her experiences teaching at London’s Italia Conti stage school, Penelope Fitzgerald spins the story of Jonathan, a child actor of great promise, and his slick rival Mattie; Joey Blatt, who has wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency; and Freddie herself, who faces an increasingly urgent choice between her principles and the school’s survival.

Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035616
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald written by Peter Wolfe and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 UK
ISBN 13 : 0007379595
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope Fitzgerald