Anita Brookner Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Blanche Vernon steht nach zwanzig Jahren Ehe allein da, nachdem ihr Mann sie für eine Jüngere verlassen hat. Während sie versucht, ihr Leben mit Museumsbesuchen und einem perfekten Äußeren zu bewältigen, wird sie von einer chaotischen Familie angezogen. Es bleibt unklar, wer in dieser Beziehung wen manipuliert.

Lewis Percy träumt von einem heldenhaften Leben, wie in seinen geliebten Romanen. Doch die Realität sieht anders aus: Er lebt mit seiner Mutter in einem Londoner Vorort und geht den einfachen Weg. Schließlich steht er vor der Entscheidung, ob er ein Stück Abenteuer in sein Leben bringen kann. Ein überraschendes Ende erwartet den Leser.

Paul Sturgis is a retired bank manager who lives alone. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. He longs for companionship. And then two women enter his life and the complexities of companionship are revealed to him

In her exquisite new novel, acclaimed author Anita Brookner explores the profound journey of growing up and leaving home. At twenty-six, Emma Roberts confronts the painful truth that to achieve true independence, she must leave her comfortable London flat and her reclusive, widowed mother. This transition requires shedding her inherited melancholy and embracing a life filled with friendships, parties, and love affairs, which seem elusive until her college tutors secure her a scholarship to study seventeenth-century garden design in Paris. Once in Paris, Emma befriends the vibrant and confident Françoise Desnoyers, whose boldness contrasts with Emma's tentative nature. During a weekend at Françoise’s stunning country château, L’Ermitage, Emma becomes entwined in Françoise’s complex relationship with her demanding mother, who pressures her to marry a wealthy family friend. This exposure to Françoise’s turbulent life grants Emma a newfound appreciation for her own circumstances. As she begins to date and settle into her new city, Emma faces a pivotal choice: embrace a life of comfortable relationships and familiar routines or pursue the elusive hope of a fulfilling future that should never be abandoned.

“For some reason, the very negative thoughts which she had during that interview with the rich-stockbroker woman in Kensington did not remain with her… She forgot that she despised the woman for not looking after her own children, and she forgot how much she envied and hated her for being rich enough to pay someone else to shovel her baby’s shit.”

"Herz is seventy-three and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end?" "He could propose marriage to an old friend he hasn't seen for thirty years; he could travel; he could make a trip to Paris to see a favourite painting; he could sell his flat, move, start afresh. He must do something with the time left - but what?"--Jacket

Moving between Nice and London, The Bay of Angels, Anita Brookner's 20th novel, makes the point that not everyone needs conventional relationships to be happy. It relates the story of Zoe, whose life changes when her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice.

Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone in Marylebone. She is content with her life, although she recognises she has become more reserved and independent since her wilder student days. Her life changes when she embarks on an affair with a widower.

The extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth. Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers. When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray. As the wedding approaches, old family secrets surface and conflicts erupt between the generations, trapping an unwilling Thea in the middle. Confronted by the company of Steve Best, a carefree young wanderer, Thea's fragile facade of peaceful acceptance is pierced, forcing her to face in a new way both her past and her future.

From the author of HOTEL DU LAC and ALTERED STATES, a novel which explores the themes of loneliness, friendship, fate and opportunity, in which a woman, forced into early retirement, longs to be rescued by the ideal man.

This text contains a male protagonist in the form of a young solicitor, his mother, a loveless marriage, and holidays on the Swiss border.

Nadine has always wanted her daughter Maud to be married and off her hands. When the two women are staying at Nadine's sister's house near Meaux, they become part of a sophisticated, worldly group into which neither Maud nor Edward Harrison, a young visitor from England, seem to fit. Maud if swept off her feet by Davis Tyler, a stylish, irresponsible young man who robs her of her innocence and disappears. Edward forced into adulthood by his inheritance of a bookshop, and thus a career, takes Maud into his care. But for both of them the shadow of Tyler is always there, illuminating their feelings of inadequacy, disappointment and loss.

Modest and reliable throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty, an uncertainnty compounded by the death of his friend, Putnam. However his life will alter dramatically with the arrival of the invasive and mercenary Katy Gibb.

Mild and self-effacing, Paul and Henrietta Manning are ill-prepared for the interuptions into their lives of Dolly, widow of Henrietta's brother Hugo. Dolly's ways are idiosyncratic, yet she is an object of fascination and dread to her relatives, especially her niece, Jane.

Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up unguided, shrouded in an innocence that her friendship with Tessa, and later her marriage to Freddie, do nothing to dispel. Freddie is far older and disapproving of Tessa and her husband Jack. And yet all four are bound together.

Beschrijving van karakters en relaties binnen een grote familie aan de hand van enkele foto's.

Na de dood van zijn moeder, die hem altijd zeer toegewijd heeft verzorgd, probeert een jongeman in andere relaties deze bescherming terug te vinden.

Brookner again shows herself to be the consummate observer of social nuance in this deeply felt chronicle of an unlikely friendship between the flamboyant, ego-centric Julia and modest, self-effacing Fay, the narrator. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership and by their sharing of a guilty secret, these two women form an intense and intimate bond that highlights their uneasy compromises with each other -- and with life itself.

Cette oeuvre s'inscrit dans la tradition du roman psychologique à l'anglaise. L'auteure y poursuit sa réflexion sur la tension entre le "désir infini" et sa "réalisation limitée", comme le signale C. Jordis. Un roman qui n'a pas la profondeur de ##Regardez-moi## mais qui constitue cependant une réussite.

"Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father's accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Heather. Yet when Heather seems poised to make an unsuitable romantic decision, Rachel decides to speak out and intervene, causing an unwitting and devastating insight."--Provided by publisher.

In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in FAMILY AND FRIENDS to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, centering upon the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars. "Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD.

A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of living.

A detailed study of the French neoclassical painter focuses on the relationship between his work and life, and his participation in the French Revolution

Om haar eenzaamheid te verdrijven zoekt een gescheiden, kinderloze vrouw contact met een levenslustige jonge vrouw met een verwaarloosd kind.

Faced with an array of wealthy suitors, New York socialite Lily Bart falls in love with lawyer Lawrence Selden, whose lack of money spoils their chances for happiness together. Dubious business deals and accusations of liaisons with a married man diminish Lily's social status, and as she makes one bad choice after another, she learns how venal and brutally unforgiving the upper crust of New York can be. One of America's finest novels of manners, The House of Mirth is a beautifully written and ultimately tragic account of the human capacity for cruelty.

Een schrijfster van romantische verhalen onttrekt zich op het allerlaatste moment aan een rijk verstandshuwelijk.

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty's amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to seances with a grandmotherly psychic. Touching, funny, and stylistically breathtaking, Providence is a brightly polished gem of romantic comedy.

Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions of her tyrannical and eccentric parents into the gentler warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr. Weiss, at forty, a quiet scholar devoted to the study of Balzac, is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature, and that once again she must make a new start in life.

Jean-Antoine Watteau (10. říjen 1684, Valenciennes – 18. červenec 1721, Nogent-sur-Marne) byl francouzský malíř, je považovaný za prvního z mistrů rokoka. Přesný den narození neznáme, 10. říjen 1684 je dnem křtu. Osobitá studie představuje znamenitého rokokového "malíře galantních slavností", oprošťuje obraz jeho života od legend a naznačuje, že jeho obvyklá charakteristika je jen dílčím zachycením neobyčejných schopností tohoto umělce, jejichž nápověď je patrna v jeho vrcholných a posledních pracích. K ní se druží výběr z kritických mínění jeho současníků i pozdějších spisovatelů a komentář k jednotlivým reprodukcím, který je zasvěceným průvodcem po historických i uměleckých souvislostech všech 6 černobílých a 45 barevných vyobrazení.

Præsentation af Antoine Watteaus (1684-1721) værker.