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California

Presents a fictionalized account of the relationship between the eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his true love, Sophie

The Blue Flower

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Wisconsin

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Idaho

"A marvelously piercing fiction" (Times Literary Supplement), shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Featuring an introduction by David Nicholls.

The Bookshop

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Oregon

Essays and Criticism

A posthumous collection of literary essays explores the "afterlife" of the writing community, defined as a legacy experienced in the minds and hearts of their readers; in a volume that includes introductions to major works of literature, reviews of fellow authors, and explorations of lesser-known writers.

From the late novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, a collection of essays-almost all of them unknown to her countless American admirers-on books, travel, and her own life and work. A good book, wrote John Milton, is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. In this generous posthumous collection of her literary essays and reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald celebrates the life beyond life of dozens of master-spirits--their afterlife not only in the pages of their works but in the minds of their readers, critics, and biographers.

Here are Fitzgerald's brilliant introductions to the classics--Jane Austen's Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch, the works of Mrs. Oliphant--as well as considerations of recent novels by Barbara Pym, Carol Shields, Roddy Doyle, and Amy Tan. Here too are reviews of several late-twentieth-century literary biographies, including Richard Holmes's Coleridge, A. N. Wilson's C. S. Lewis, and Martin Stannard's Evelyn Waugh-reviews that together form a memorable criticism both of life and the art of life-writing.

The Afterlife

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Virginia

Short-listed for the Booker Prize.



"A singular accomplishment." -- Boston Globe



"Powerfully bewitching." -- Los Angeles Times



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, generous 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.



This new edition features an introduction by Philip Hensher, author of Scenes from Early Life, along with new cover art.

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald; David Nicholls (Introduction by)

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Afterlife

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Gate of Angels