Morpho Eugenia and The Conjugial Angel are two fascinating novellas and like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, POSSESSION, they are set in the mid-nineteenth century...more details Format:Paperback
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780099283935
In this witty, Borges-like Novel, A. S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G...more details Format:Paperback
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780099472711
These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse...more details Format:Paperback
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780099431848
"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...more details
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780679776901
A Whistling Woman" "portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late '60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times. Frederica Potter...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780679751342
In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in "Possession": the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780679736806
At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica...more details Format:Paperback Pages:640
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780099839408
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...more details Format:Paperback
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780701137182
America discovered A. S. Byatt when "Possession," her Booker Prize-winning Victorian novel, was published here in 1990 and became one of the bestselling books of that year. Readers have been waiting ever since for her next full-length novel. Babel Tower is every bit as brilliant and ambitious as its predecessor...more details Format:Hardback
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Toni Morrison;A S Byatt
ISBN:9780307264886
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's "Beloved" is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:316
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780701169459
In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism...more details Format:Hardback
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Byatt AS
ISBN:9780701183899
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives...more details Format:Hardback Pages:624
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Byatt AS
ISBN:9780099535454
Ben gets the chance for a trip of a lifetime when his mum is invited to attend a big conference in Australia. In the midst of a drought, it's hot. And it's dry. Drier than it's been for years. And it only takes a spark to set off a fire... As world leaders gather and a student demo gathers pace...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:617
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George Eliot;A S Byatt
ISBN:9780375411236
George Eliot's last and most unconventional novel is considered by many to be her greatest. First published in installments in 1874-76, "Daniel Deronda" is a richly imagined epic with a mysterious hero at its heart. Deronda...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:928
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ISBN:9780701168230
A volume of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. In the same delectable format as THE MATISSE STORIES and THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE'S EYE...more details Format:Hardback
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780099273769
A new volume of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. In the same distinctive format as "The Matisse Stories" and "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye...more details Format:Paperback
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Byatt Adam
ISBN:9780593064641
Chef proprietor of the award-winning restaurant Trinity in south London, Adam Byatt presents here his unique take on countless classic dishes that are worth staying in for. How to Eat In is packed with over one hundred recipes u some very simple and achievable in minutes...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:265
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Byatt;Sodre
ISBN:9780099591214
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park...more details Format:Paperback
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A S Byatt;Ignes Sodre
ISBN:9780679777533
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Hazel Bell;A S Byatt
ISBN:9780802084941
The index, taken for granted, perhaps considered boring - or not considered at all - is an essential part of a book." Indexers and Indexing" takes a wry look at the history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780099429951
A new collection of Byatt stories is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn. A. S. Byatt's short stories never fail to delight - but this new collection brings shivers as well as magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle aged women walk into a forest...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9781400075607
Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for grownups. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: " "two middle-aged women...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Byatt;Harvey
ISBN:9780701177379
'You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all...Our memory is our coherence...more details Format:Hardback Pages:432
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780099283836
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 essays - "Fathers"...more details Format:Paperback
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780674008335
As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780674004511
As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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BYATT
ISBN:9780192142382
"The subjects of these stories range from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical," writes acclaimed novelist A.S. Byatt in her introduction to this remarkable collection. Indeed...more details Format:Hardback
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BYATT
ISBN:9780192881113
"The subjects of these stories range from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical," writes acclaimed novelist A.S. Byatt in her introduction to this remarkable collection. Indeed...more details Format:Paperback
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780099429845
Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet, since the birth of the novel...more details Format:Paperback
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780701173104
Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel...more details Format:Hardback
IPossession/I is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.Following a trail of letters...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:528
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A S Byatt;Virginia Leishman VirginiaLeishman
ISBN:9780060527099
Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation "Possession" is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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Byatt AS
ISBN:9780099800408
'It is a great, shaggy, generous, polysyllabic, triple-decker beast of a book and I haven't read anything in an age I've enjoyed so much. Nor have I sat into the small hours turning the pages of a manuscript in execrable computer print...more details Format:Paperback
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780679735908
National Bestseller Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance...more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9781921656835
Ragnarok is the story of the end of the world. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. What more relevant myth could any modern writer find?
As the bombs rain down in the Battle of Britain...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780802129925
Booker Prize winner Dame Antonia Byatt breathes life into the Ragnorak myth, the story of the end of the gods in Norse mythology. "Ragnarok" retells the finale of Norse mythology...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:177
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George Eliot;N D Byatt A SWarren
ISBN:9780140431483
The works assembled here introduce George Eliotas incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780375725081
From the award-winning author of "Possession" comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for fact. Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780307272096
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:688
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780307473066
Shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession...more details Format:Paperback Pages:883
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9781409077237
In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friends...more details Format:Electronic book text
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780679762225
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9780679762232
These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Penelope Fitzgerald;A S Byatt
ISBN:9780618154500
The last book and only collection of short stories by Penelope Fitzgerald fittingly showcases her at her wisest, her funniest, her best. Like her novels...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9781905583188
Performing a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud's classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror writing, this freshly contemporary collection of literary interpretations reintroduces to the world Freud's compelling theory of "das unheimliche"--or...more details Format:Paperback Pages:226
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BYATT
ISBN:9780199561605
From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:439
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BYATT
ISBN:9780192803764
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt,herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...more details Format:Paperback
This is the debut novel by the author of the bestselling Possession. Byatt tells the story of troubled, sensitive seventeen-year-old Anna Severell...more details Format:Paperback Pages:324
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780099302230
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...more details
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A S Byatt
ISBN:9781400077458
Fabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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ISBN:9780099478010
The Virgin in the Garden is the first novel to feature Frederica Potter, and the beginning of a triumphant quartet of novels. Set in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen...more details Format:Paperback
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780099443391
This work presents the triumphant conclusion to Byatt's quartet depicting the clashing forces in English life from the early 1950s to 1970. While Frederica - the spirited heroine of "The Virgin in the Garden"...more details Format:Paperback
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AS Byatt
ISBN:9780701173807
While Frederica - the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life and Babel Tower - falls almost by accident into a career in television in London...more details Format:Hardback