An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

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An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

Bookshop

A Novel

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.8 (4 ratings) ·
  • 30 Want to read
  • 10 Have read

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.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Language
English

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Subjects

Booksellers and bookselling, Bookstores, England, Fiction, Relations with women, Widows, Women in the book industries and trade, Working class women, Fiction, general, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, Fiction, historical, Large type books, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Widows, fiction, Cities and towns, Germany, fiction, English literature, Women in the book industries and trade--fiction, Booksellers and bookselling--fiction, Bookstores--fiction, Widows--fiction, Pr6056.i86 b66 2015, 823/.914, 18.05

People

Novalis (1772-1801), Sophie von Kühn (1782-1797)

Places

England
Edition Availability
Cover of: Libraria
Libraria
2021-05-06, Nemira
Cover of: Bookshop
Bookshop
2018, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: Knizhnai︠a︡ lavka
Knizhnai︠a︡ lavka
2018
in Russian
Cover of: La librería
La librería
Oct 05, 2017, Impedimenta
hardcover
Cover of: La llibreria
La llibreria
Oct 05, 2017, Impedimenta, IMPEDIMENTA
paperback
Cover of: The Bookshop
The Bookshop
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: De boekhandel
De boekhandel
Apr 29, 2015, Uitgeverij Karmijn
paperback
Cover of: Die Buchhandlung
Die Buchhandlung
2014, Insel Verlag
in German
Cover of: Die Buchhandlung
Die Buchhandlung
Dec 08, 2014, Insel Verlag GmbH
paperback
Cover of: Bookshop
Bookshop
2013, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: La librería
La librería
2010, Impedimenta, IMPEDIMENTA
in Spanish
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop: The gate of angels ; The blue flower
2003, Knopf
in English
Cover of: The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
September 23, 2003, Everyman's Library
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Bookshop, the Gate of Angels, the Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.).)
The Bookshop, the Gate of Angels, the Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.).)
June 2003, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Reissue edition
Cover of: The Bookshop (Flamingo)
The Bookshop (Flamingo)
December 2, 2002, Flamingo
in English
Cover of: The Bookshop (Flamingo)
The Bookshop (Flamingo)
December 2, 2002, Flamingo
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Bookshop
The Bookshop: A Novel
May 16, 2001, Mariner Books
in English
Cover of: Die Buchhandlung
Die Buchhandlung
June 1, 2001, Insel, Frankfurt
Paperback in German
Cover of: The Bookshop
The Bookshop: and The gate of angels ; and The blue flower
2001, Everyman's Library
in English
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop: The gate of angels ; The blue flower
2001, Everyman Publishers, Knopf
in English
Cover of: Die Buchhandlung.
Die Buchhandlung.
February 1, 2000, Insel, Frankfurt
Hardcover in German
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop
1999, Chivers Press, Thorndike Press
in English
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop
1997, Houghton Mifflin
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: Bookshop
Bookshop: A Novel
1997, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
Cover of: Bookshop
Bookshop
1997, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop
1989, Flamingo
in English
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop
1978, Duckworth
in English

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Pagination
48

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL37177106M
ISBN 13
9781299901179

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20770W

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In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not.
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