Penelope Fitzgerald's novels are described by Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books as "the kind of fiction in which perfection is almost to be hoped for." Louis B. Jones, in The New York Times Book Review (1 March 1992), places Fitzgerald firmly i...
From virtually the outset of her career as a novelist, Penelope Fitzgerald's work has attracted serious critical attention. Her second novel, The Bookshop (1978), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which is Britain's most valuable literary award, wort...
The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald. Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 123 pp., $10.00 (paper). In 55 short chapters, with an afterword, The Blue Flower tells of the short life and love of the once widely read (in Germany) philosopher and poet Novalis (1772-1801). In 1798 Friedrich...
Take even a cursory glance at the financial pages these days, and it seems the business of America is stuffing cash into the pockets of its businessmen. Nabisco president F. Ross Johnson, with his hypothetical $2.6 billion takeover profit and very real $30 million...
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