Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: possession
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0679735909
ISBN-13: 9780679735908
3 Book Set By A. S. Byatt; Possession; Angels & Insects; the Matisse Stories."Literary critics make natural detectives," says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters, and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph Ash, a literary great long assumed to be a devoted and faithful husband, and Christabel La Motte, a lesser-known "fairy poetess" and chaste spinster. At first, Roland and
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: eye, nightingale, djinn
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-27
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0679762221
ISBN-13: 9780679762225
"Once upon a time," A.S. Byatt’s title fairy story begins, "when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins ... there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy. Her business was storytelling..." But this is no backward looking, quaint fairy time. The time is the present, and the protagonist is a sensible scholar who is given the not-at-all sensible gift of a genie. How will Gillian, an expert in fairy stories and well versed in all that
Author: Jane Campbell
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: imagination, heliotropic, byatt
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-05-26
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 088920439X
ISBN-13: 9780889204393
A.S. Byatts novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration. Enter Jane Campbells new book, A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, a comprehensive critical reading of Byatts fiction from The Shadow of the Sun and The Game, published in the 1960s, to A Whistling Woman (2002). The book begins with an overvi
Authors:Henry James, A.S. Byatt,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: classics, library, modern, bostonians
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2003-12-09
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0812969960
ISBN-13: 9780812969962
This brilliant satire of the womens rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verenas heart and remove her from the limelight? The Bostonians has a vigor and blithe wit found nowhere else in James, writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction. It is about idealism in a de
Authors:Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, A.S. Byatt,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: modern, library, classics, glass, looking, adventures, wonderland, alice
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-12-10
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 0375761381
ISBN-13: 9780375761386
"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine’s words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months...) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped
Author: Isabella Wrobel
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Keywords: identity, possession, construction, byatt
Number of Pages: 28
Published: 2010-09
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 3640695534
ISBN-13: 9783640695539
Author: Catherine Burga
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: continuum, contemporaries, guide, reader, possession, byatt
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0826452485
ISBN-13: 9780826452481
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years ? from ?The Remains of the Day? to ?White Teeth?. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.
