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Fitzgerald's novel of pre-revolutionary Moscow, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Featuring an introduction by Andrew Miller."Fitzgerald was the author of several slim, perfect novels. The Blue Flower and The Beginning of Spring both had me abuzz for days the first time I read them. She was curiously perfect."- Teju Cole, author of Open City "Writing so precise and lilting it can make you shiver." - Los Angeles Times March 1913. Moscow is stir...

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 e...

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

La "Casa sull'acqua" - premiato in Inghilterra con il Booker Prize - è ambientato negli anni Sessanta, sulle ultime house-boat, le barche sul Tamigi adattate ad abitazione. Quattro personaggi appaiono, ognuno a suo modo, spiritualmente indecisi sulla loro condizione, come il loro essere anfibi, "creature né di terraferma né di acqua": sono Maurice, amabile e "incurabilmente solidale" fino all'imprudenza, Willis, "pittore di marine sui settanta...

A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist - and prolific correspondent - Penelope Fitzgerald.

Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life. Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her time living on a barge at Battersea Reach.

A reissue of the biography of Penelope Fitzgerald's family.

De gepassioneerde student en dichter Fritz von Hardenberg, zoon in een verarmde Duitse adellijke familie, is hopeloos verliefd op de 12-jarige Sophie. Zonder toestemming van zijn familie vraagt hij haar ten huwelijk, maar Sophie sterft op tragische wijze. In de stijl die haar zo beroemd maakte beschrijft Fitzgerald het 18de eeuwse Duitsland: levensecht, zonder uitweidingen, zodat de lezer op de eerste rang zit bij de jaarlijkse wasdag op het ...

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On the Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tides of the Thames. There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a rece...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie.The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe among the small towns and great universities of 18th-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will late...

This novel combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution--the museum. When the glittering treasure of the ancient golden child is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel.

A delectable comedy of manners." -Boston Globe The Ridolfi are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, Italy is still struggling back after the war, and the family, like its decrepit villa and farm, has seen better days. Among the Ridolfi, only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows anything like vitality. But it's a vitality matched by innocence-a dangerous combination, to herself and to all who love her. Chiara sets her h...

A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works by the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.

In un grande museo londinese arriva dalla Garamanzia il Fanciullo d'oro: sarcofago millenario di un re morto bambino. Sir William lo portò alla luce durante una spedizione archeologica. E mentre ai piani inferiori che ospitano la mostra fa da coro la massa di visitatori, ai piani segreti superiori, tra la biblioteca e i magazzini, si svolge un complesso intrigo. Più morti, un suicidio, un falso clamorso, traffici clandestini di beni museali, a...

Il romanzo racconta la vita di Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), prima che fosse conosciuto sotto il nome di Novalis. Il materiale è ricavato da lettere da lui inviate e ricevute, da diari, documenti ufficiali e privati, pubblicati in cinque volumi fra il 1960 e il 1988.

As the critic Hermione Lee says in an appreciative introduction, in each of these "wonderfully sympathetic, curious, and knowledgeable pieces, Penelope Fitzgerald leads us right to the heart of the matter-the feeling of a novel, the nature of a life, the understanding of how something or someone works, the sense of a place or a time"-and does so with brevity, justice, humor, grace, and style.

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On the eve of the Russian Revolution, Frank Reid, a struggling British-born printer in Moscow, is abandoned by his wife and is left to care for his three children while keeping his business afloat.

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