Literature & Fiction | Literary Fiction

The Means of Escape

by Penelope Fitzgerald

2020-09-08 17:01:50

Compare Price
The last book and only collection of short stories by Penelope Fitzgerald fittingly showcases her at her wisest, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these stories are "mordantly funny, morally astute . . . [as] they plumb the endless absurdities... Read more
The last book and only collection of short stories by Penelope Fitzgerald fittingly showcases her at her wisest, her funniest, her best. Like her novels, these stories are "mordantly funny, morally astute . . . [as] they plumb the endless absurdities of the human heart" (Washington Post Book World). Roaming the globe and the ages, the stories travel from England to France to New Zealand and from today to the seventeenth century and back again. Now featuring an introductory essay by A. S. Byatt and two newly published stories, this Mariner edition of THE MEANS OF ESCAPE "serves as an elegiac gift to dedicated fans of her award-winning novels and a tantalizing introduction for new readers" (Entertainment Weekly). It memorializes a writer guided by a generous but unwavering moral gaze and proves once more "why [Fitzgerald] will endure" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Less

Book Details

File size7.8 X 5.08 X 0 in
Print pages176
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Publication date December 1, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780007521418
autor-image
Penelope Fitzgerald
Author
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 Dec 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since ...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
eBooks.com In Stock EPUB (encrypted) EPUB (encrypted) Buy GBP 4.99
BetterWorld.com - New, Used, Rare Books & Textbooks In Stock Buy USD 3.98
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy CAD 15.99
eBooks.comIn Stock
Format
EPUB (encrypted)
Condition
EPUB (encrypted)
Buy GBP 4.99
BetterWorld.com - New, Used, Rare Books & TextbooksIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy USD 3.98
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy CAD 15.99
Available Discount
No Discount available

Related Books

View All
FREE
The Ghost-Seer, Or, the Apparitionist, and Sport of Destiny
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Helen of the Old House
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
On the Trail of the Space Pirates
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Contes de Noël
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Weapons of Mystery
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Septimus
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Kings in Exile
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Dawn
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Varney the Vampire or the Feast of Blood
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Germany the Next Republic?
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Aventuroj De Antonio (Esperanto Edition)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Mary Marie
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The Melting of Molly
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Her Father's Daughter
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The Hawk of Egypt
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
A Short View of the Fravds, and Abvses Committed by Apothecaries, as Well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians, and of the Only Remedy Thereof by ... Medicines by Christopher Merret ... (16
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The Upas Tree: A Christmas Story for All the Year
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Satan Sanderson
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The house of sleep
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Sister Carrie
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
Les Précieuses ridicules
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free

Stay in touch.

© 2026 AMPLE READS