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55 produkter
Knox Brothers
Häftad, 2002
148 kr
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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, only her second book, Penelope Fitzgerald turned her novelist’s gaze on the quite extraordinary lives …
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring
Inbunden, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
234 kr
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Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach. Human Voices takes place in the BBC where she worked …
Offshore
Häftad, 2009
131 kr
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily …
Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower
Inbunden, 2001
215 kr
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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 …
Charlotte Mew
And Her Friends
Häftad, 2002
141 kr
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Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century – beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter de la Mare (for whom she was ‘a very rare being’), …
House of Air
E-bok, 2009
133 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEEThe previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her …
Blue Flower
Häftad, 1996
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ comes this unusual 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 father’s permission to announce his engagement to his …
Gate of Angels
Häftad, 1991
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
135 kr
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is …
Innocence
E-bok, 2013
88 kr
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Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novelsInnocence 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 …
Beginning of Spring
Häftad, 1989
139 kr
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at 22 Lipka Street, the home of English printer Frank Reid.One day Frank’s wife Nellie takes the train back to …
Human Voices
Häftad, 1988
139 kr
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From the Booker Prizewinning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was …
Bookshop
Häftad, 1993
139 kr
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only …
Innocence
Häftad, 1988
149 kr
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A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes.The Ridolfis are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, and the family, like its decrepit villa and farm, has seen better …
At Freddie’s
Häftad, 1989
152 kr
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From the Booker Prize-winner of ‘Offshore’ comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, in London’s West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School. Of unknown age and …
Golden Child
Häftad, 1994
139 kr
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‘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.Far be it for the hapless Waring Smith, junior officer at a prominent London museum, to expect any kind of thanks for his work …
Means of Escape
Häftad, 2001
148 kr
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A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s short stories.Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch, no other writer has been shortlisted so many times for the Booker. Her last novel, ‘The Blue Flower’, was the book of its year, …
So I Have Thought of You
The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
Av Penelope Fitzgerald, Terence Dooley
Häftad, 2009
172 kr
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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 finest British authors of …
House of Air
Häftad, 2005
244 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEEThe previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her …
Beginning of Spring
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore’, `The Blue Flower’ and `Innocence’ comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted tale of a troubled Moscow printworks .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, …
Blue Flower
E-bok, 2013
70 kr
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore’ and `Innocence’ comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie.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 …
Human Voices
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore’, `The Blue Flower’ and `Innocence’, this is a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when …
Offshore
E-bok, 2013
70 kr
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This Booker Prize-winning novel from the author of `The Blue Flower’ is set among the houseboat community of the Thames.`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 …
Bookshop
E-bok, 2013
74 kr
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore’, `The Blue Flower’ and `Innocence’ comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia.This, Penelope Fitzgerald’s second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian …
Knox Brothers
E-bok, 2014
88 kr
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Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore’ and `The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the story 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.’Penelope Fitzgerald …
Charlotte Mew
And Her Friends
E-bok, 2013
87 kr
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Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.Thomas Hardy hailed her as `far and away the best living woman poet’; the formidable Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was the writer of some of the best English poems of the twentieth century.In …
So I Have Thought of You
The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
Av Penelope Fitzgerald, Terence Dooley
E-bok, 2010
142 kr
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A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope FitzgeraldAcclaimed for her exquisitely elegant novels – including the Booker Prize-winning `Offshore’ – and superb biographies, Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most admired authors in …
Gate of Angels
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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From the Booker Prize-wining author of `Offshore’ and `the Blue Flower’ - this Booker Prize-shortlisted novel centres on Cambridge Fellow Fred Fairly’s search for a rational riposte to love.In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no …
At Freddie’s
E-bok, 2013
88 kr
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From the Booker Prize-winner of `Offshore’ comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, in London’s West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School. Of unknown age and …
Means of Escape
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s short stories.Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch, no other writer has been shortlisted so many times for the Booker. Her last novel, `The Blue Flower’, was the book of its year, …
