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Penelope Fitzgerald

    December 17, 1916 – April 28, 2000

    Penelope Fitzgerald was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer, celebrated for her keen insight into human nature and masterful storytelling. With an impeccable eye for detail and a dry wit, she captured the complexities of everyday life and the hidden passions of her characters. Her prose, often grounded in real events and individuals, resonates with timeless truth and literary elegance. Fitzgerald left an enduring mark on British literature as a storyteller who could bring history and human lives to vibrant existence with unique sensitivity.

    Penelope Fitzgerald
    Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring
    The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower
    Charlotte Mew
    The Afterlife
    Edward Burne-Jones
    The Knox Brothers
    • 2014

      Edward Burne-Jones

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of Offshore' and The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

      Edward Burne-Jones
    • 2014

      Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

      The bookshop
    • 2009

      So I Have Thought of You

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist - and prolific correspondent - Penelope Fitzgerald.

      So I Have Thought of You
    • 2009

      Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.

      Offshore
    • 2004

      The Afterlife

      • 393 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.1(32)Add rating

      The collection features Penelope Fitzgerald's insightful essays on literature, travel, and her personal experiences, showcasing her unique perspective on renowned authors and their works. Through her introductions to classics like Jane Austen's "Emma" and George Eliot's "Middlemarch," as well as contemporary novels, Fitzgerald examines the enduring impact of writers on readers and the literary world. Additionally, her reviews of late-twentieth-century biographies provide a thoughtful critique of both life and the craft of biography, highlighting lesser-known figures alongside literary giants.

      The Afterlife
    • 2004

      Innocence

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(484)Add rating

      "Introduction by Julian Barnes"--Page 1 of cover.

      Innocence
    • 2003

      The Bookshop, the Gate of Angels, the Blue Flower

      Introduction by Frank Kermode

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.8(43)Add rating

      Emerging as a significant literary voice later in life, Penelope Fitzgerald published a diverse body of work, including biographies, novels, and short stories. This collection showcases three of her acclaimed novels, highlighting her unique storytelling and character development. Fitzgerald's late start in writing, beginning at age fifty-nine, adds an inspiring dimension to her legacy as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century.

      The Bookshop, the Gate of Angels, the Blue Flower
    • 2003

      Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life. It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English emigres in pre- Revolutionary Russia and has been described by one critic as the best `Russian' novel of the twentieth century. schovat popis

      Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring
    • 2002

      Charlotte Mew

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.1(47)Add rating

      Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.

      Charlotte Mew
    • 2002