An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

The bookshop

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An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

The bookshop

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  • 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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Publisher
Duckworth
Language
English
Pages
118

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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

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Cover of: The Bookshop
The Bookshop
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
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De boekhandel
Apr 29, 2015, Uitgeverij Karmijn
paperback
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop: The gate of angels ; The blue flower
2003, Knopf
in English
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop
1997, Houghton Mifflin
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: The bookshop
The bookshop
1978, Duckworth
in English

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PZ4.F555 Bo, PR6056.I86 Bo, PZ4.F555BO

The Physical Object

Pagination
118 p. ;
Number of pages
118

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4297499M
ISBN 10
0715613200
LCCN
78325826
OCLC/WorldCat
4833441
Library Thing
27147
Goodreads
2850832

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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