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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
    The Beginning of Spring
    The Means of Escape
    Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring
    The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower
    Charlotte Mew
    Edward Burne-Jones
    • 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-Jones2014
      4.0
    • Seit über dreißig Jahren lädt die „Lektüre zwischen den Jahren“ ihre Leser zum Innehalten und Nachdenken ein. Nun präsentiert sie sich in neuer Geschenkbuchausstattung. Der Band auf das Jahr 2011 ist der Liebe gewidmet und versammelt die schönsten Gedanken und Geschichten zu diesem unvergänglichen Thema. Isabel Allende, Rose Tremain, Louise Erdrich, Laura Esquivel u. v. a. erzählen von Schmetterlingen im Bauch, von Verführung, Gefühl und Leidenschaft.

      Lektüre zwischen den Jahren2011
      2.8
    • Offshore

      • 181 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      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.

      Offshore2009
      3.2
    • Innocence

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

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

      Innocence2004
      3.6
    • 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 Spring2003
      3.9
    • Charlotte Mew

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

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

      Charlotte Mew2002
      4.1
    • Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which she breathed new life. schovat popis

      The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower2001
      4.2
    • The Means of Escape

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald's short stories. schovat popis

      The Means of Escape2000
      3.7
    • 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.

      At Freddie's1998
      3.6
    • 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.

      The Gate of Angels1998
      3.7