Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is indeed a young Cambridge scientist, and the nurse, Daisy Saunders, has been ejected from a London hospital. If Fred is to win her l...(展开全部)

佩内洛普·非兹杰拉德（1916-2000）是当今英国文坛最杰出，最受读者欢迎的小说家之一。她的三本书获得英国文学最高奖——布克奖提名，分别是：《书店》（1978），《早春》（1988）和《天使之门》（1990）。1979年，作者凭借《离岸》一书荣获该奖项。1995年，她的作品《蓝花》胜过同期其他文学作品，被选为“年度之书”。佩内洛普长期定居伦敦，曾就业于新闻业，政府食品部，BBC广播公司以及各类学校，包括一所戏剧学校，她在晚年开始从事写作，并成为了一名杰出的作家。佩内洛普2000年于伦敦去世，享年83岁。

Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature ...(展开全部)

佩内洛普·非兹杰拉德（1916-2000）是当今英国文坛最杰出，最受读者欢迎的小说家之一。她的三本书获得英国文学最高奖——布克奖提名，分别是：《书店》（1978），《早春》（1988）和《天使之门》（1990）。1979年，作者凭借《离岸》一书荣获该奖项。1995年，她的作品《蓝花》胜过同期其他文学作品，被选为“年度之书”。佩内洛普长期定居伦敦，曾就业于新闻业，政府食品部，BBC广播公司以及各类学校，包括一所戏剧学校，她在晚年开始从事写作，并成为了一名杰出的作家。佩内洛普2000年于伦敦去世，享年83岁。

Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is indeed a young Cambridge scientist, and the nurse, Daisy Saunders, has been ejected from a London hospital. If Fred is to win her l...(展开全部)

Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature ...(展开全部)

Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.

"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted waters, they discover that their quest is more than they imagined and that the world's end is only the beginning.