Fitzgerald's final novel is about the 18th century German romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. Regarded by many as her finest work and named by The Observer as one of the 10 best historical novels. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Blue Flower

Literature & Fiction

Penelope Fitzgerald

Contemporary

Flamingo

The Knox Brothers

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The Harvill Press

Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Harvill P.

Cascades - "The Beginning of Spring" (Collins Cascades)

Harper Collins Education

Offshore

1988 Flamingo trade paperback, 6th printing. Penelope Fitzgerald (The Blue Flower: A Novel). On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river's tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society.

Literary

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, garnering extraordinary acclaim in Britain, America and Europe. This superb collection of stories, originally published in anthologies and newspapers, shows Penelope Fitzgerald at her very best. From the tale of a young boy in 17-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide ranging, enigmatic and very funny. They are each miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour.

The Means of Escape

Short Stories & Anthologies

Knox Brothers

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Bookshop

David, Nicholls

HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury's saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869--1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as Virginia Woolf put it, was 'very good and interesting and unlike anyone else' and who wrote some of the best English poems of the twentieth century. In her private life, to all appearances, she was a dutiful daughter living at home with a monster of an old mother. The proprieties had to be observed and no one must know that the Mews had no money, that two siblings were insane and that Charlotte was a secret lesbian, living a life of self-inflicted frustration. Despite literary success and a passionate, enchanting personality, eventually the conflicts within her drove her to despair, and she killed herself by swallowing household disinfectant. In this unexpectedly gripping portrait, Penelope Fitzgerald brings all her novelist's skills into play, giving us what Victoria Glendinning calls a 'tantalising, touching story!an entire life's emotional history in a short space'.

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends with a Selection of Her Poems (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Arts & Literature

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

Houghton/Mifflin

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