{"product_id":"9781400041268","title":"The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower: Introduction by Frank Kermode","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eFitzgerald, Penelope; Kermode, Frank\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEveryman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9\/23\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late  in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began  her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades  she published three biographies, nine novels, and a collection of short stories.  Now three of her acclaimed novels are gathered here in one volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bookshop \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Gate of Angels \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Flower\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the National  Book Critics Circle Award, revitalizes historical drama through the story of Novalis,  an eighteenth-century German romantic poet and visionary genius, and his unlikely  love affair with a simple child-woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese three novels all display Fitzgerald’s  characteristic wit, intellectual breadth, and narrative brilliance, applied to an  array of traditional forms into which she breathed new life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42961218470143,"sku":"9781400041268","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781400041268_s600x595.jpg?v=1782147270","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781400041268","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}