Possession : a romance /
Byatt, A. S. 1936-
Possession : a romance / A.S. Byatt. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1991. - 555 p. ; 21 cm.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, 1990.
As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, & poems, & trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. Winner of England's Booker Prize, a coast-to-coast bestseller, and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is a novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets, Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion and ideas.
0679735909 : $12.00 9780679735908
91050023
Literary historians--Fiction.
Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.--England
Poets, English--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
France--Fiction.
Love stories.
Possession : a romance / A.S. Byatt. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1991. - 555 p. ; 21 cm.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, 1990.
As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, & poems, & trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. Winner of England's Booker Prize, a coast-to-coast bestseller, and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is a novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets, Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion and ideas.
0679735909 : $12.00 9780679735908
91050023
Literary historians--Fiction.
Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.--England
Poets, English--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
France--Fiction.
Love stories.