Anita Brookner
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a ... [... more]
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Leaving Home~Anita Brookner
 It is Short, Concise, Well Written, and Clever; Exciting? No.: This is a short and well written story by Brookner, similar in style to some of her other novels. Anita Brookner (born 1928) is an English novelist and art historian. She was born in London [... more]
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At seventy, Dorothea May has withdrawn into a habit of reclusion all to close to entropy, cloaking her disappointment with life -- and with herself -- in emotional remoteness. But the strictly observed rounds of her days are disturbed when her late [... more]
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Novels for Students, Volume 23: Presenting Analysis, ...
Each volume of < I< XNovels< /Xfor < XStudents< /X< /Icontains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each < Xnovel< / [... more]
$116.11
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Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind
DIVThis book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world [... more]
$19.23
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Lewis Percy By Brookner, Anita
Lewis Percy By Brookner, Anita [... more]
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For Student Series Novels: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac, by British novelist Anita Brookner, was published in 1984. Brookner's fourth novel, it won the Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award. As a result of her first three novels, Brookner had won a reputation for writing about th [... more]
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Biography - Brookner, Anita (1928-): An article from: ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 31 Publication Date: 2006-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Every Eye
Another remarkable rediscovery from Persephone: The editors at persephone Books in London have done a tremendous service by reissuing these terrific and beautiful editions of neglected twentieth-century women's classics; it's a true shame these books [... more]
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Incidents in the Rue Laugier
A human tragedy.: This novel was truly depressing. It was all about the childhood dreams of the two main characters, Maud and Edward, and how their small dreams never came to fruition. Throughout the book the characters strive for and constantly fall [... more]
$4.99
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Hotel Du Lac (Spanish Edition)
Amazon.com Review: Edith Hope (a.k.a. romance author Veronica Wilde) has been banished by her friends to a stately hotel in Switzerland. During her stay she befriends some of the other guests, each of whom has his or her own tale. Edith struggles to come [... more]
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The Rules of Engagement: A Novel
The "rules" can be harsh and unevenly applied (4.5*s): As seen through the eyes of Elizabeth, a middle-aged Londoner with an upper middle-class upbringing, this book is a most prescient examination of what life can bring in that social milieu: [... more]
$13.00
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