| Record Number |
667992 |
| ISBN |
1400041260 (hc : alk. paper) |
| 1400041260 (US : hc : alk. paper) |
| 1857152476 (UK) |
| Author |
Fitzgerald, Penelope |
| Title |
The bookshop, The gate of angels, The blue flower / Penelope Fitzgerald ; with an introduction by Frank Kermode. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Knopf, 2003. |
| Pagination etc. |
p. cm. |
| Series |
Everyman's Library |
| Contents note |
The Bookshop -- The Gate of Angels -- The Blue Flower. |
| Summary Note |
"The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to science and to his all-male Cambridge college finds his life and views disrupted by a nurse named Daisy. The Blue Flower, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, revitalizes historical drama t |
| hrough the story of Novalis, an eighteenth-century German romantic poet and visionary genius, and his unlikely love affair with a simple child-woman."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject - Name |
Novalis, -- 1772-1801 -- Relations with women -- Fiction |
| Kühn, Sophie von, -- 1782-1797 -- Fiction |
| Subject |
Women in the book industries and trade -- Fiction |
| Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction |
| Working class women -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Fitzgerald, Penelope Bookshop. |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope Gate of angels. |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope Blue flower. |
| Added title |
Blue flower. |
| Gate of angels. |
| Shelf Location |
F FITZ |
