Fred Fairly, un brillante joven, tiene ante sí un prometedor futuro como profesor de Ciencias en Cambridge, siempre y cuando respete una de las normas ancestrales del college al que pertenece. El St. Angelicus, como el Monte Athos, se caracteriza por no haber permitido que ninguna mujer traspase sus muros desde hace más de quinientos años. Por tanto, el matrimonio es algo impensable. Pero parece que Fred, miembro de la peculiar Sociedad de los Desobedientes, comienza a revelarse contra la rigidez del mundo que le rodea
Penelope Fitzgerald Libros
Penelope Fitzgerald fue una novelista, poeta, ensayista y biógrafa inglesa, celebrada por su aguda perspicacia sobre la naturaleza humana y su magistral narrativa. Con un ojo impecable para el detalle y un ingenio seco, capturó las complejidades de la vida cotidiana y las pasiones ocultas de sus personajes. Su prosa, a menudo arraigada en eventos e individuos reales, resuena con verdad atemporal y elegancia literaria. Fitzgerald dejó una marca perdurable en la literatura británica como narradora que pudo dar vida a la historia y a las vidas humanas con una sensibilidad única.







The Knox Brothers
- 304 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of her remarkable family.
Edward Burne-Jones
- 336 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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.
The Afterlife
- 393 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The collection features Penelope Fitzgerald's insightful essays on literature, travel, and her personal experiences, showcasing her unique perspective on renowned authors and their works. Through her introductions to classics like Jane Austen's "Emma" and George Eliot's "Middlemarch," as well as contemporary novels, Fitzgerald examines the enduring impact of writers on readers and the literary world. Additionally, her reviews of late-twentieth-century biographies provide a thoughtful critique of both life and the craft of biography, highlighting lesser-known figures alongside literary giants.
Charlotte Mew
- 304 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring
- 512 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
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
So I Have Thought of You
- 336 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist - and prolific correspondent - Penelope Fitzgerald.
The Bookshop, the Gate of Angels, the Blue Flower
Introduction by Frank Kermode
- 512 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
Emerging as a significant literary voice later in life, Penelope Fitzgerald published a diverse body of work, including biographies, novels, and short stories. This collection showcases three of her acclaimed novels, highlighting her unique storytelling and character development. Fitzgerald's late start in writing, beginning at age fifty-nine, adds an inspiring dimension to her legacy as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century.
The Means of Escape
- 176 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald's short stories. schovat popis
