Possession : a romance /
As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, & poems, & trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas em...
| Основен автор: | Byatt, A. S. 1936- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Vintage Books,
1991.
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| Издание: | 1st Vintage International ed. |
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| Резюме: |
As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, & poems, & trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. Annotation. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. 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 triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets, Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion and ideas. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
555 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0679735909 (Pbk.) 9780679735908 (Pbk.) |