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A. S. Byatt
A exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.
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A S Byatt
Byatt is a vivid colourist’ Sunday Times ‘A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas’ Spectator ‘These little stories by one of Britain’s foremost grandes dames of the writing world are a…
A.S. Byatt
A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A.S. Byatt
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It is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. Soon her future, and that of the people closest to her, begins…
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Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children.
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Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie abandons academia and is confronted with the boredom and frustrations of motherhood…
As novelists become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history, this study is designed to redraw the map of the boundaries of modern fiction. In her opening…
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Toni Morrison
Morrison’s magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel–first published in 1987–brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader’s comprehension.
These stories deal with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, and loneliness and passion. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives. A woman walks…
A collection of three stories, each haunted in a different way by the spirit of Matisse, from the winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession .
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The author of Possession returns to the territory of her bestselling novel in two breathtaking fictions that explore the social and psychic landscape of Victorian England. Set in a proper…
Goethe
Goethe’s Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do…
Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas decides to study the messiness of ‘real life’. Doing nothing by halves, he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But…
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. When her husband files for divorce and Jude becomes the target of a high-profile court case…
First published in 1965, this book examines the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch’s interest in…
First published in 1964, this is the story of Anna Severell’s struggle at the age of 17 to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell…
Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour…
With a novelist’s insight and eye for detail, A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge against the background of the great changes of their times - in society…
The constant theme running through this collection of short stories, the first collection by A.S. Byatt, is that of repetition, taking the form of family patterns recurring across generations, the…
A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt’s other books include Possession , winner of the 1990 Booker Prize.
In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s arrival on the throne. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. On the brink…
A.S. Byatt’s fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains The Glass Coffin and Gode’s Tale of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together…
Celia M. Wallhead
A.S. Byatt has always alternated novels with shorter fiction. Different literary and linguistic models are applied here to analyse how she guides her readers’ understanding of vital, complex issues within…
George Eliot
George Eliot’s final novel is an extraordinary, keen and yet tender examination of two very different lives. A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive…
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann’s real masterpiece is his sprawling snowbound epic of 1924, The Magic Mountain … simply one of the greatest novels ever written. - The Guardian
In her first full-length work of fiction since Possession –for which she won the Booker Prize–A.S. Byatt interweaves the private passions of a large number of characters with the chaotic…
Amid the effervescence and turbulence of the 1960s, Frederica Potter finds a career in television in London, while events in Yorkshire threaten to turn her life and the lives of…
This spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous…
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing. Tantalizing, witty, and delightfully rueful, this paperback edition is the story of a disenchanted…
In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing and remembering, gifted novelist and critic Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good…
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession come three intensely observed, beautifully written stories, each inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each revealing the intimate connection between seeing and…
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The ideal introduction to the novels, stories, and essays of fabulist, realist, critic, and Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. * Byatt is a gifted observer, able to discern the exact…
Complex, amusing, clever, and thought-provoking ( The Plain Dealer ), this collection of stories by the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession transports readers to a world where opposites–passion and loneliness…
When they were little, Cassandra and Julia played a game modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters have grown up and become hostile strangersuntil a man from…
The tumultuous events in this tale of a brilliant, eccentric and fatefully divided family begin with the staging of a play about Elizabeth I and come to a shattering climax…
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…
The magnificent stories in this New York Times Notable Book range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy. 5 illustrations.
Presents a collection of Byatt stories that are by turns funny, spooky, and sad. This book includes the stories of two middle aged women who walk into a forest confronting…
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover…
Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the cultures of Crete and Knossos; William Morris, a British craftsman, in thrall to the…
A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt’s celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th…
This volume provides the first substantive inquiry into her fiction and spans virtually the entire body of her work. By advancing multiple and mutually informative theoretical frameworks for a critical…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for A. S. Byatt’s Art Work, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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Willa Cather
Jean Marie Latour travels to his Vicarate in New Mexico, hoping to establish the Catholic Church among its inhabitants.
A collection of short stories that are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. The author of Possession explores the fragile ties between generations…
A. S. Byatt,Byatt
Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the…
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt’s short stories.
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