The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower
(Author) Penelope FitzgeraldPenelope 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. The Bookshop is a contemporary comedy of manners, set in a provincial town. InThe Gate of Angels romance is combined with the novel of ideas; while The Blue Flower revitalizes historical drama in a study of the eighteenth-century German writer Novalis. Fitzgerald being the genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched conceptual context, each book conjures up a different world in a few vivid pages which remain etched on the memory.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald was a British author known for her novel "The Blue Flower," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her writing style was characterized by wit, economy of language, and precise observation. Fitzgerald's work explored themes of history, society, and human nature with subtlety and insight.
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