Download or read book The Means of Escape written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her final book--published posthumously--Fitzgerald presents several very strange pasts, her narratives ranging from the 17th century to the late 20th century. The title tale, set in New Zealand in 1852, resembles a cautionary fable about a spinster and an escaped con. But in Fitzgerald's hands, it is infinitely more.