Penelope Fitzgerald Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.