The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1857152476
ISBN 13
9781857152470
Category
Classics
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
472
Description
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. The Bookshop is a contemporary comedy of manners, set in a provincial town. In The Gate of Angels romance is combined with the novel of ideas; while The Blue Flower revitalizes historical drama in a study of the eighteenth-century German writer Novalis. Fitzgerald being the genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched conceptual context, each book conjures up a different world in a few vivid pages which remain etched on the memory. - from Amzon
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1
