An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

The bookshop

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An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

The bookshop

1st U.S. ed.

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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
Language
English
Pages
123

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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

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

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England

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2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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2003, Knopf
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The bookshop
1997, Houghton Mifflin
in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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"A Mariner original."

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Boston
Other Titles
Book shop

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6056.I86 B66 1997, PR6056.I86B66 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
123 p. ;
Number of pages
123

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL678908M
ISBN 10
0395869463
LCCN
97025389
OCLC/WorldCat
37155604
LibraryThing
27147
Goodreads
319388

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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