Dec. 17:胡適之先生；Penelope Fitzgerald

Hu Shih 胡適之先生 的世界 The World of Dr. Hu Shih

http://hushihhc.blogspot.tw/

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此作者有意思：多才多藝，生卒年代與H. A. Simon同；生日與胡適之先生同；台灣的陳蒼多譯過她的兩本小說；
憂傷藍花 / 蓓納蘿.費兹吉羅(Penelope Fitzgerald)著 ; 陳蒼多譯
臺北縣三重市 : 新雨, 2002[民91]
臺灣大學圖書館可能有整套Everyman's Library，包括此書。

　Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize–winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.[1] In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[2] In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels".[3]

Everyman's Library

2015年12月17日 21:30 · 

Penelope Fitzgerald was born Penelope Knox in Lincoln, England on this day in 1916.

"The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself."
--from "The Bookshop" (1978)

Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a collection of short stories. Now three of her acclaimed novels are gathered here in one volume. The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to science and to his all-male Cambridge college finds his life and views disrupted by a nurse named Daisy. The Blue Flower, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, revitalizes historical drama through the story of Novalis, an eighteenth-century German romantic poet and visionary genius, and his unlikely love affair with a simple child-woman. These three novels all display Fitzgerald’s characteristic wit, intellectual breadth, and narrative brilliance, applied to an array of traditional forms into which she breathed new life.