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Strangers

Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude of his London flat. He occasionally pays obliging visits to his nearest living relative, Helena, his cousin’s widow. To avoid having to turn down her Christmas invitation, Paul sets off for a holiday in Venice where he meets Mrs. Vicky Gardner, an intriguing woman in the midst of a divorce. Upon his return to England, a former girlfriend, Sarah, reenters Paul’s world and these two women spark a transformation in Paul, culminating in a shocking decision.

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9781400068340 | Random House Inc, June 16, 2009, cover price $26.00

9781905490424 | Gardners Books, March 5, 2009, cover price $30.70 | About this edition: Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal.

Paperback:

9780307472601 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 13, 2010), cover price $15.00

Miscellaneous:

9780307477583 | Vintage Books, July 13, 2010, cover price $14.00

Strangers: A Novel

By Anita Brookner

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Miscellaneous:

9781588368508 | Random House Inc, June 16, 2009, cover price $26.00

Red Lights

By Anita Brookner (introduced by), Norman Denny (trans) and Georges Simenon

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Paperback:

9781590171936 | New York Review of Books, July 18, 2006, cover price $14.00

Leaving Home

Leaving her family and London home to study in Paris, Emma Roberts soon discovers a diversion from her academics in the person of her new friend, Françoise Desnoyers, a provocative and free-spirited young woman who has a tense relationship with her formidable mother. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780786285570 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 10, 2006), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world.

9781400064144 | Random House Inc, January 1, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Leaving her family and London home to study in Paris, Emma Roberts soon discovers a diversion from her academics in the person of a new friend, Franðcoise Desnoyers, a free-spirited young woman who has a tense relationship with her mother.

Paperback:

9781400095650 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 13, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Leaving her family and London home to study in Paris, Emma Roberts soon discovers a diversion from her academics in the person of her new friend, Françoise Desnoyers, a provocative and free-spirited young woman who has a tense relationship with her formidable mother.

9780141020709 | Gardners Books, February 2, 2006, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: When Emma Roberts goes to France, she finds a diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers.

A Friend from England

In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel Kennedy, her friend Harriet, and Harriet's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780816146567 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel, her friend Heather, and Heather's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment

9780394563879 | Pantheon Books, March 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel, her friend Heather, and Heather's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment

Paperback:

9781400095216 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 12, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel Kennedy, her friend Harriet, and Harriet's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment.

9780060972028 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1989), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In a tale of gradual self-revelation, Rachel, her friend Heather, and Heather's parents live desperately ordinary lives, unable to take the chances necessary to find self-fulfillment

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780816193028, titled "Friend from England" | G K Hall Audio Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $53.95

A Misalliance

In her loneliness, recently divorced Blanche Vernon turns to other people's lives, good works, and uplifting pastimes for meaning and solace, while her friends hold the general opinion that she has recently become insupportably eccentric. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780896218208, titled "The Misalliance" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Convinced that her own misguided sense of stability and fair play has contributed to her husband's leaving her for a capricious computer expert named Mousie, Blanche decides to cultivate a more voluble, petulant nature

9780394553405, titled "The Misalliance" | Pantheon Books, March 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Recently divorced Blanche Vernon, in her loneliness, turns to other lives, good works and uplifting pastimes, while her friends hold the general opinion that she has recently become insupportably eccentric

Paperback:

9781400095223 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 12, 2005), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In her loneliness, recently divorced Blanche Vernon turns to other people's lives, good works, and uplifting pastimes for meaning and solace, while her friends hold the general opinion that she has recently become insupportably eccentric.

The Rules of Engagement

Encountering each other later in life, Elizabeth and Betsy, two women who had known each other since childhood, reflect on the decisions and the men who have shaped their destinies. By the author of Making Things Better. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Anita Brookner

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Paperback:

9781400075300 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 8, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Encountering each other later in life, Elizabeth and Betsy, two women who had known each other since childhood, reflect on the decisions and the men who have shaped their destinies.

Library:

9781585474776 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, October 31, 2004), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: In this masterly new novel, the Booker Prizeâwinning author of Hotel du Lac and Making Things Better gives us an exquisite story about the changes in relationships over time, and how our life choices can both reflect the past and direct the future.

Making Things Better

While considering whether or not to propose marriage to an old friend, to make a trip to Paris, to sell his home, and to start afresh, Herz also ponders what he is going to do with the remainder of his life to make it meaningful and satisfying. By the Booker Prize-winning author of The Bay of Angels. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Anita Brookner

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Paperback:

9781400031061 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: While considering whether or not to propose marriage to an old friend, to make a trip to Paris, to sell his home, and to start afresh, Herz also ponders what he is going to do with the remainder of his life to make it meaningful and satisfying.

Library:

9781585473199 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, July 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Booker Prizeâwinning author of The Bay of Angels and Hotel du Lac, âone of the finest novelists of her generationâ (The New York Times), now gives us a masterly new novel about the self-discoveries that come with maturity, and the eternal question confronted by people of all ages: What will I do with the rest of my life?

The Rules of Engagement: A Novel

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9781400061655 | Random House Inc, January 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Encountering each other later in life, Elizabeth and Betsy, two women sho had known each other since childhood, reflect on the decisions and the men who have shaped their destinies.

The Next Big Thing

Product Description: At seventy-three, Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with his final years. Questions and misunderstandings haunt Herz like old ghosts. Should he travel, sell his flat, or propose marriage to a friend he has not seen in thirty years? The letters he writes and does not send and the passers-by he encounters remind him how out of touch he is, how detached from the modern world...read more

By Anita Brookner and Stephen Thorne (narrator)

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780754055525 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, March 1, 2003), cover price $39.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754009092 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, March 1, 2003), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: At seventy-three, Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world.

The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton

A definitive collection of short stories by the author known for her insight into the lives of women and men trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the demands of society, in a volume that also includes an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Hotel du Lac. Reprint.

By Anita Brookner (editor)

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Paperback:

9780786711123 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, December 15, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A definitive collection of short stories by the author known for her insight into the lives of women and men trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the demands of society, in a volume that also includes an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Hotel du Lac.

9780786705238 | Carroll & Graf Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by the author known for her insight into the lives of women and men trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the demands of society

Making Things Better: A Novel

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780375508882 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, January 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: While considering whether or not to propose marriage to an old friend, to make a trip to Paris, to sell his home, and to start afresh, Herz also ponders what he is going to do with the remainder of his life to make it meaningful.

Hotel Du Lac

Recounts the holiday of Edith Hope, meek, unmarried, and thirty-nine, who, on the mend from a disastrous love affair, becomes intimately involved with her fellow guests at the Swiss Hotel du Lac

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780394542157 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Recounts the holiday of Edith Hope, meek, unmarried, and thirty-nine, who, on the mend from a disastrous love affair, becomes intimately involved with her fellow guests at the Swiss Hotel du Lac

Paperback:

9788472232495, titled "Hotel Du Lac: Null" | Tusquets, June 1, 2002, cover price $12.95

9788483105917, titled "Hotel Du Lac: Null" | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $10.95

9780679759324 | Vintage Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Recounts the holiday of Edith Hope, meek, unmarried, and thirty-nine, who, on the mend from a disastrous love affair, becomes intimately involved with her fellow guests at the Swiss Hotel du Lac

9780525484974 | Reprint edition (E P Dutton, September 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Recounts the holiday of Edith Hope, meek, unmarried, and thirty-nine, who, on the mend from a disastrous love affair, becomes intimately involved with her fellow guests at the Swiss Hotel du Lac

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780816196807 | G K Hall Audio Books, June 1, 1987, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Recounts the holiday of Edith Hope, meek, unmarried, and thirty-nine, who, on the mend from a disastrous love affair, becomes intimately involved with her fellow guests at the Swiss Hotel du Lac

9780745158105 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, May 1, 1987), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Winner of the Booker Prize 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams.

The Bay of Angels: A Novel

Newly liberated by her mother's sudden marriage and subsequent move to France, Zoe's freedom is cut short by the unexpected death of her stepfather and the mysteries surrounding his life, her mother's sudden illness, and her own struggle to come to terms with an uncertain future. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Anita Brookner

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Paperback:

9780375727603 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Newly liberated by her mother's sudden marriage and subsequent move to France, Zoe has her freedom cut short by the unexpected death of her stepfather, the mysteries surrounding his life, and her mother's sudden illness.

The House of Mirth

Product Description: The House of Mirth (1905), a novel by Edith Wharton (1862â1937), tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York Cityâs high society around the turn of the last century.

By Anita Brookner (introduced by)

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Paperback:

9780684801230 | Reprint edition (Scribner, August 1, 1995), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A portrait of American manners and morals at the turn of the century offers the saga of Lily Bart, a beautiful heroine who lacks one requirement for marrying well in New York society--her own money

Reinforced:

9780606207119 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $22.73 | About this edition: The House of Mirth (1905), a novel by Edith Wharton (1862â1937), tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York Cityâs high society around the turn of the last century.

Familia Y Amigos

By Anita Brookner

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Paperback:

9788472231177, titled "Familia Y Amigos / Family and Friends: Null" | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $17.95

Una Relacion Inconveniente

By Anita Brookner

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Paperback:

9788472231993, titled "Una Relacion Inconveniente / A Misalliance: Null" | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $16.95

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880

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By Anita Brookner (foreword by) and Francis Steegmuller (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780330488471 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, December 1, 2001, cover price $57.50

The Bay of Angels

Product Description: Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young ZoÃ« Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, ZoÃ« is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous...read more

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780786236541 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young ZoÃ« Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings.

9780670896622 | Viking Pr, May 30, 2001, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Zoe Cunningham is delighted when her widowed mother remarries, particularly as her new stepfather is amiable, generous, and the owner of a villa in Nice.

9780375505829 | Random House Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Newly liberated by her mother's sudden marriage and subsequent move to France, Zoe's freedom is cut short by the unexpected death of her stepfather, the mysteries surrounding his life, and her mother's sudden illness.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754054474 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, October 1, 2001), cover price $32.95 | also contains The Bay of Angels

The Bay of Angels

Product Description: When her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice, Zoe's life changes forever. Alone in London, she discovers a new-found freedom and independence - until a sudden and tragic accident forces her to re-examine her life and expectations: maybe settling down isn't for everyone...read more

By Eleanor Bron (narrator) and Anita Brookner

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780754054474 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, October 1, 2001), cover price $32.95 | also contains The Bay of Angels

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754006909 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 2001), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: When her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice, Zoe's life changes forever.

Romanticism and Its Discontents

A new take on French Romantic painting re-examines this fertile period in art history that lasted from the end of the Revolution to Napolean's defeat at Waterloo in 1815. By the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780374251598 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A new take on French Romantic painting re-examines this fertile period in art history that lasted from the end of the Revolution to Napolean's defeat at Waterloo in 1815.

Paperback:

9780374527846 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A new take on French Romantic painting re-examines this fertile period in art history that lasted from the end of the Revolution to Napolean's defeat at Waterloo in 1815.

Falling Slowly

Product Description: Beatrice considers herself to be delicate and sensitive, idle and confused. Forced into early retirement, she has an unashamed and romantic desire to be rescued by the ideal man. But Beatrice's only family is her orderly sister, Miriam.

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9781568957005 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 1, 1999), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The peaceful, contemplative lives of the Sharpe sisters--Miriam, a translator of French texts, and Beatrice, a professional pianist--are complicated by three very different men--Max, Beatrice's agent; Simon, a charming married man; and journalist Tom Rivers

Paperback:

9780375704246 | Vintage Books, January 4, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The peaceful, contemplative lives of the Sharpe sisters--Miriam, a translator of French texts, and Beatrice, a professional pianist--are complicated by three very different men--Max, Beatrice's agent; Simon, a charming married man; and journalist Tom Rivers

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754054306 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, August 1, 2001), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Beatrice considers herself to be delicate and sensitive, idle and confused.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754002673 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, March 1, 1999), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Beatrice considers herself to be delicate and sensitive, idle and confused.

Altered States

Product Description: Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative--only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela...read more

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780786209774 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 1997), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: General FictionLarge Print EditionUnder Brookners transforming eye, the most ordinary lives become engrossing adventures.

9780679449737 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An English lawyer's obsession with Sarah, a beautiful cousin.

Paperback:

9780679773252 | Vintage Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Lonely, shocked by his mother's remarriage, and haunted by memories of a passionate and destructive affair with Sarah Miller, Alan Sherwood becomes engaged to Angela, a fragile, needy women, until Sarah unexpectedly reenters his life

CD/Spoken Word:

9780753111307 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, July 30, 2001), cover price $71.95 | About this edition: Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780753101773 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, May 1, 1997), cover price $64.95

Undue Influence: A Novel

When Claire Pitt, a quiet, sheltered woman, begins working in a bookstore and enters into a complicated affair, her entire life is thrown into an upheaval. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780783890012 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 2000), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A woman who has lived most of her life under the watchful eyes of her parents, Claire Pitt finds her ordinary life turned upside down when her job at a local bookstore leads to a complicated affair with a mysterious young man.

Paperback:

9780375707346 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 2001), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A quiet young woman who has lived most of her life under the watchful eyes of her parents, Claire Pitt finds her ordinary life turned upside down when her job at a local bookstore leads to a complicated affair with a mysterious young man.

Undue Influence

Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen.

By Anita Brookner

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Hardcover:

9780375503344 | Random House Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A quiet young woman who has lived most of her life under the watchful eyes of her parents, Claire Pitt finds her ordinary life turned upside down when her job at a local bookstore leads to a complicated affair with a mysterious young man

Paperback:

9780140284157 | New edition (Gardners Books, July 27, 2000), cover price $21.25 | About this edition: Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754053224 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, February 1, 2000), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Undue Influence is the nineteenth novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754004080 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, February 1, 2000), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: A quiet young woman who has lived most of her life under the watchful eyes of her parents, Claire Pitt finds her ordinary life turned upside down when her job at a local bookstore leads to a complicated affair with a mysterious young man.

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