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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

A Novel

Follows a kindhearted English widow's struggle to open a bookshop in a seaside town against the polite, but uncompromising opposition of the town's arbiters of culture

The Book Shop

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New Jersey

The Bookshop

Rhode Island

Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution--the museum. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel, especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith. While prowling the halls one night, Waring is nearly strangled. Two suspicious deaths ensue, and only the cryptic hieroglyphics of the Garamantes can bring an end to the mayhem. Fitzgerald has an unerring eye for human nature, and this satirical look at the art world delivers a terrifically witty read.

The Golden Child

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Blue Flower & The Bookshop

Pennsylvania

Offers a portrait of a group of eccentrics living in houseboats on the river Thames and describes how their disparate lives intertwine and complicate matters for everyone.

Offshore

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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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Ohio

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

Arizona

Penelope Fitzgerald's brilliant novel about life at an eccentric stage school.

In the 1960s, Freddie's was the usual name for the Temple Stage School, which supplied the West End theatres with children for roles in everything from Shakespeare to pantomime. Freddie, the proprietress, is a formidable woman, of unknown age and provenance. But everybody who is anybody claims to know her. By sheer force of character and single-minded thrust she has turned herself into a national institution.



This story of what happened at Freddie's is not only for theatre-lovers, but for people who care about children or hate them, or were - once upon a time - children themselves. In particular, it is for those of us who sometimes pretend to be what we are not - that is to say, act a little.

At Freddie's

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Florida

Beautiful Chiara is the last of the Ridolfi, a Florentine family of long lineage and eccentric habits. She is smitten with Salvatore, a brilliant but penniless doctor, a rational man who wants nothing to do with romance. This is the story of how these two--with the best intentions, the kindest of instincts, and the most meddlesome of friends--make each other wonderfully miserable inside.

Innocence

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Michigan

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Idaho

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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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Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece.

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 of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, learned in Dialectics and Mathematics, who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. The passionate and idealistic Fritz needs his father's permission to announce his engagement to his 'heart's heart', his 'true Philosophy', twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. It is a betrothal which amuses, astounds and disturbs his family and friends. How can it be so?



One of the most admired of all Penelope Fitzgerald's books, The Blue Flower was chosen as Book of the Year more than any other in 1995. Her final book, it confirmed her reputation as one of the finest novelists of the century.

Wisconsin

Texas

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Maryland

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"When I was young", writes Penelope Fitzgerald, "I took my father and my three uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else wasn't like them. Later on, I found that this was a mistake, but I've never quite managed to adapt myself to it. I suppose they were unusual, but I still think that they were right, and insofar as the world disagrees with them, I disagree with the world".

Her father was E.V. "Eddie" Knox, known to the literate public as "Evoe", a witty contributor to Punch and, from 1932 to 1945, its tireless editor. Eddie was the eldest son of the Bishop of Manchester, and he and his brothers grew up in a hard-working Evangelical household where comfort counted for little and money for even less. In their adulthood, the boys remained faithful to their father's values of humility, humor, and courage. Above all else, they remained faithful to one another.

Eddie's brothers were Dillwyn, a mathematical genius and a chief code-breaker in both world wars; Wilfred, an Anglo-Catholic apologist and an alarmingly shabby saint; and Ronnie -- Monsignor Ronald Knox -- the most famous Roman Catholic priest in England. The bond between the four is beautifully evoked here, as is the tension between their family loyalties and their wildly divergent careers and religious beliefs. Here is a biography not only of four remarkable individuals but also of a fascinating family mind, a mind shared by the book's remarkable author, Penelope Fitzgerald.

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Book Shop

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Golden Child

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower & The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald; David Nicholls (Introduction by)

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald; Simon Callow (Introduction by)

At Freddie's

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald; David Nicholls (Introduction by)

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald; David Nicholls (Introduction by)

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

Innocence

Penelope Fitzgerald; David Nicholls (Introduction by)

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Afterlife

Penelope Fitzgerald; McWilliam (Introduction by)

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

Knox Brothers

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald; David Nicholls (Introduction by)

The Bookshop