Penelope Fitzgerald Knihy

Spisovatel Sebastian Faulks jednou prohlásil, že „číst román od Penelope Fitzgeraldové je jako vyjet si na výlet v osobitém autě. Všechno ve voze je špičkové kvality – motor, karosérie i interiér vás naplňují důvěrou. Pak zhruba po jednom kilometru někdo vyhodí z okna volant“. Román „Na vodě“ líčí život hausbótové kolonie na Temži, propletené osudy lidiček, kteří tak úplně nepatří ani na souš, ani na moře – upjatého Richarda, Nenny a jejích dvou dětí i Willise, který se v pětašedesáti letech snaží prodat svou bárku dřív, než se potopí. Tato úsporná, ironická próza autorce po zásluze vynesla nejprestižnější britskou literární cenu, Booker Prize. Britská bohéma na hausbótech! Román oceněný Bookerovou cenou.

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.

Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.

Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which she breathed new life. schovat popis

Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life. It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English emigres in pre- Revolutionary Russia and has been described by one critic as the best `Russian' novel of the twentieth century. schovat popis

A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald's short stories. schovat popis

Fitzgerald's novel of pre-revolutionary Moscow, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Featuring an introduction by Andrew Miller.

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, 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 each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside-down.

Fitzgerald writes a story about the formidable proprietress of "Freddie's, " the Temple Stage School, which provides child actors for London's West End theaters, a promising child actor and his rival, and a man with wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency.

"Introduction by Julian Barnes"--Page 1 of cover.