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Romanticism And Its Discontents
  • Published: 22 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405992749
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99

Romanticism And Its Discontents



  • Published: 22 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405992749
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.

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