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Possession

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  • 1990
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A.S. Byatt
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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 a triumphant lov... Show More

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 a 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 séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany - what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.

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Number of Pages: 555

ISBN: 0679735909

ISBN-13: 9780679735908

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Mary Ellen Wright @MWrightLNP · Sep 6, 2022
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It’s only 511 pages, but “Possession,” by A.S. Byatt. Dueling academics. A mystery from the past. Action that goes backward and foreword in time, from the present (well, 1990) to the 18th century. I really loved this book, and learned a lot by reading it.
Kathleen Dames @kathleendames · Sep 6, 2022
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Also, Possession by A.S. Byatt is one of my desert island books (my original paperback clocks in at 555pp). British libraries, uni politics, convincingly mimetic Victorian poetry, multiple romances in different eras, and a climactic scene in a graveyard, plus the epilogue. A+
Sam Burt @wordsburt · Jun 19, 2018
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“The tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.”
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