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The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.
‘Twice in your life you know that you are approved of by everyone: when you learn to walk and when you learn to read.’
Surprising, wonderfully funny, definitive, this is a major collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s reviews, essays and autobiographical writings.
Includes pieces on contemporary novelists Giles Foden, Anne Enright, Carol Shields, Rose Tremain, Roddy Doyle; on classic writers Muriel Spark, A.E. Housman, Rose Macaulay, M.R. James, Stevie Smith, Dorothy L. Sayers; on remembering her grandfather E.H. Shepard; on her love of Devon and Spain and William Morris; on writers in their old age; and witty and poignant recollections of her schooldays, her life on a Thames barge, her childhood in Hampstead and the ghost who lived next door but one.
Includes an introduction by Hermione Lee
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‘This generous selection of essays, reviews, introductions and other occasional writings proves yet again that stylistically, intellectually and morally Fitzgerald couldn’t put a foot wrong if she’d tried. Hers is an impeccable and unique voice not just from another century but another world.’ Michael Dibdin, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph
‘Remarkable. It is the range of her scholarship that impresses.’ Doris Lessing, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph
‘Of all the novelists in English of the last quarter-century, Penelope Fitzgerald has the most unarguable claim to greatness.’ Philip Hensher, Spectator
‘An intelligent writer, superbly and unfailingly so. Wise and funny, with a dry wit allied to a great emotional sympathy.’ Sunday Times
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most distinctive voices in British literature. The prizewinning author of nine novels, three biographies, one collection of short stories, she died in 2000.
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- EditoreFlamingo
- Data di pubblicazione2003
- ISBN 10 0007136420
- ISBN 13 9780007136421
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine336
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing (full print run includes '1'). With original unclipped jacket (£20.00). Edited by Terence Dooley with Mandy Kirkby and Chris Carduff. Introduction by Hermione Lee. Index. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, the odd small crease/rub to edges and the odd very small mark. Boards are near fine with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Boards are a little askew. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Odd small mark to bottom edge of pages. Pages are a bit tanned. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. Codice articolo 007319
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Descrizione libro 1st edn. Hardback in d/w. 552pp. Black cloth boards with silver titles to spine. FINE uninscribed copy, clean, bright and tight. In near FINE unclipped d/w, now in removeable mylar wrapper. Penelope Fitzgerald explores the life beyond life of writers their afterlife in the hearts and minds of readers and in the imaginations of their critics and biographers. Here are a great nove|ist's brilliant introductions to Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Middlemarch. Here are a marvellously quick-witted literary journalist's reviews of her fellow fiction writers (Brookner, lshiguro, Amy Tan) and fellow biographers (Holroyd, Karl, Holmes). Here, especially, are extended explorations of minor writers the authors of modest, overlooked, but fully achieved imaginative works the celebration of which reveals so much about Penelope Fitzgerald's own literary sensibility: the lyric poet Charlotte Mew, the ghost-story writer M. R. James, and the cartoonists and humorists of Punch. Rounded out by travel pieces, autobiography, and essays on the craft of fiction, Codice articolo 6323
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