Possession
By A. S. Byatt
By A. S. Byatt
By A. S. Byatt
Introduction by Philip Hensher
By A. S. Byatt
Introduction by Philip Hensher
By A. S. Byatt
By A. S. Byatt
Part of Vintage International
Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Part of Vintage International
Category: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Romance
Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction | Historical Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
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$19.00
Oct 01, 1991 | ISBN 9780679735908
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$30.00
Oct 29, 2013 | ISBN 9780375712357
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Apr 18, 2012 | ISBN 9780307819567
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Praise
“A combination of intellectual fireworks and magnetic readability.”
—THE GUARDIAN
“An altogether magical performance . . . This is a novel for every taste: a heartbreaking Victorian love story, a take-no-prisoners comedy of contemporary academic life, and an unputdownable supernatural mystery. You turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had the chance to read it.”
—THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
“This cerebral extravaganza of a story zigzags with unembarrassed zest across an imaginative terrain bristling with symbolism and symmetries, shimmering with myth and legend, and haunted everywhere by presences of the past . . . Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them.”
—THE SUNDAY TIMES (London)
“Gorgeously written . . . Dazzling . . . A tour de force.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“A masterpiece of wordplay and adventure.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“[Possession] remains one of the most popular and admired winners of the Booker Prize . . . [It] engages with its period through virtuoso re-creation of that past’s writings in multiple forms . . . The astounding mastery of Possession lies, surely, in the confidence and sweep of its construction of those Victorian voices . . . Few, if any, novels of the time approached the past with such originality and formal daring . . . English literature of the last quarter century would look very different without it.”
—from the Introduction by Philip Hensher
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