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Possession

By: A. S. Byatt

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: October 1991

Seller ID: 335589

ISBN: 0679735909

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

National Bestseller

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist s ances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.

An exhilarating novel of wit and r...
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Possession

By: A. S. Byatt

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: October 1991

Seller ID: 339297

ISBN: 0679735909

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An exhilarating novel of wit and r...
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Babel Tower

By: A. S. Byatt

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: June 1997

Seller ID: 343056

ISBN: 0679736808

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned against her. Fleeing to London with their young son, she gets a teaching job in an art school, where she is thrown into the thick of the new decade. Poets and painters are denying the value of the past, fostering dream...
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

By: A. S. Byatt

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: October 1998

Seller ID: 371281

ISBN: 0679762221

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.

The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of...
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Author:A. S. Byatt

Possession

Possession

Babel Tower

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye