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.
A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession," ...
In the same format as The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, this collection deals with the themes of loyalty and betrayal, quests and longings, loneliness and passion.
In the same format as The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, this collection deals with the themes of loyalty and betrayal, quest...
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, politics, education and literature. As she charts their personal lives, traces the growth of their ideas, and shows how these are reflected in their work, readers are presented with pictures not only of the two poets themselves, but also of their families, friends and contemporaries, including Southey, de Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron and Keats.
With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge against the background of the grea...
In this concluding volume Frederica falls almost by accident into a career in television in London whilst tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life.
In this concluding volume Frederica falls almost by accident into a career in television in London whilst tumultuous events in her home county of York...
Yorkshire 1952. As the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the story of an eccentric family fatefully divided. It is an entertaining tale, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably.
Yorkshire 1952. As the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the story of an eccentric family fatefully ...
Federica Potter plunges into Cambridge university life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. This is the second novel in the Federica Potter quartet.
Federica Potter plunges into Cambridge university life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister has abandoned academe for the cosy ...
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 with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale.
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 Bre...
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Time magazine calls her "a novelist of dazzling inventiveness." Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. "On academic rivalry and obsession,...
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a st...
In "Babel Tower" a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life") now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Hers is not the only struggle; her friend Jude writes a novel, "Babbletower," which is tried for obscenity; her broth in law Daniel becomes involved in new movements for London's poor and...
In "Babel Tower" a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of ...