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The Bookshop

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.

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  • "Three novels"
  • "Bookshop"@it
  • "Bookshop"
  • "Sammlung"
  • "Book shop"@en
  • "Book shop"

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  • "Florence Green erwirbt in Hardborough, einem verschlafenen Dorf an der Küste Ostenglands, das Old House als zukünftiges Domizil für ihre Buchhandlung. Dass das Gebäude anscheinend von einem Poltergeist besessen und bis auf die Grundmauern feucht ist, bringt sie von ihrem Vorhaben ebensowenig ab wie die Tatsache, dass sie von finanziellen Dingen keine Ahnung hat. Voller Schwung stürzt sie sich in die Vorbereitungen und stattet ihre Buchhandlung liebevoll aus. Die Einwohner des kleinen Städtchens begegnen dem Unternehmen zunächst mit Skepsis, bald stellen sich jedoch erste Stammkunden ein. Als Florence Green aber dann ein gerade erschienenes Buch eines bis dahin unbekannten Autors, Vladimir Nabokov, verkauft, ist die Aufregung gross und weitet sich zu einem Skandal aus ... Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) studierte in Oxford und war während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Mitarbeiterin bei der BBC. Sie war Dozentin an der Italia Conti Academy und an der Queen"s Gate School in London, ausserdem arbeitete sie einige Jahre in einer Buchhandlung in Southwold, Suffolk. Sie gehört laut Times zu den wichtigsten englischen Autoren nach 1945. 1979 wurde sie mit dem renommierten Booker Prize und 1998 als erste nichtamerikanische Autorin mit dem amerikanischen National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction ausgezeichnet."
  • "It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop."
  • "Dans une petite ville de la côte sud de l'Angleterre, Florence Green, malgré l'opposition d'un certain nombre de gens, décide d'ouvrir une librairie. Hardborough va devenir un champ de bataille. C'est le roman de V. Nabokov, "Lolita", qui va porter le coup de grâce à la librairie qui va être obligée de fermer."
  • "In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one."@en
  • "The pettiness of an English seaside town. It is described by Florence Green, a middle-aged widow who buys a house for a bookshop, something the town has not had for over a century. Leading her enemies is Mrs. Gamart who wanted the house for an arts center."
  • "The pettiness of an English seaside town. It is described by Florence Green, a middle-aged widow who buys a house for a bookshop, something the town has not had for over a century. Leading her enemies is Mrs. Gamart who wanted the house for an arts center."@en
  • ""In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop -- the only bookshop -- in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Her warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently ... haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: that a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one. Balzac, an expert on how nasty people can be to one another in small country places, once said that the ordinariness of human lives can never be a measure of the effort it takes to keep them going. Anyone who has found this to be true will admire Florence Green for her wit and her innocent courage, a courage that comes from simply choosing to survive.""@en

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  • "Politique-fiction"
  • "Downloadable Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ebooks"@en
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Political fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Blindendruck"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "L'affaire Lolita : roman"
  • "The Bookshop"@en
  • "The Bookshop"
  • "La librería"
  • "La librería"@es
  • "La Librería"
  • "书店 = The bookshop"
  • "The bookshop : [a novel]"
  • "書店 = the bookshop"
  • "De boekhandel"
  • "Shu dian = The bookshop"
  • "L'affaire Lolita"
  • "Die Buchhandlung : Roman"
  • "The bookshop"@en
  • "The bookshop"
  • "書店"
  • "Knjigarna"@sl
  • "A livraria"
  • "书店"
  • "La libraire : roman"
  • "The Bookshop A Novel"@en
  • "Shu dian = the bookshop"
  • "The bookkshop"
  • "La libreria"@it
  • "La libreria"
  • "L'affaire Lolita FRPB"
  • "Die Buchhandlung Roman"
  • "Shu dian"

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