The Gate of Angels, (Paperback)

from libbromus

'Surely if one doesn't find sex tiresome in life, it won't be tiresome in fiction,' said the Junior Dean. 'I do find it tiresome in life,' Dr. Matthews replied, 'Or rather, I find other people's concern with it tiresome. One is told about it and told and told!' I quite agree. This is one of Fitzg...

from lucybrown

Penelope Fitzgerald wrote such rare small gems,and there just are not enough of them, so I spread them out. This time I chose The Gate of Angels, a novel set in turn of the century Cambridge. The plot is slender,a simple love story,but it is the comic backdrop of a pre-war Cambridge with its sill...

from lucybrown

Penelope Fitzgerald wrote such rare small gems,and there just are not enough of them, so I spread them out. This time I chose The Gate of Angels, a novel set in turn of the century Cambridge. The plot is slender,a simple love story,but it is the comic backdrop of a pre-war Cambridge with its sill...

from ffortsa

I haven't read any Penelope Fitzgerald before, and was almost put off by the beginning of this book, which is a little twee, but the Pearl Rule carried me past my first reaction, to good effect. This little comedy takes place in 1912, divided in its setting between an obscure celibate Cambridge c...

from Donna828

Fred Fairly is being trained as a scientist at Cambridge University in the early 1900's. His rational world turns upside down when he and Daisy Saunders are literally thrown together during a bicycle accident. Fred must have been thrown on his scholarly head because he has fallen for Daisy based ...