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Possession
A Romance
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Possession
The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day
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 a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
Winner of the Booker Prize
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Possession 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, journals, and poems, they uncover a web of passion, deceit, and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
Winner of the Booker Prize
The perfect gift for Valentine's Day
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Possession by A S Byatt is highly praised as a remarkable achievement, rich with ideas and offering a variety of themes and narratives. Critics highlight its appeal to lovers of multiple genres, combining a moving Victorian romance, a sharp satire of academic life, and a gripping supernatural mystery. The novel is celebrated for providing an eloquent exploration of the joys of reading, leaving readers both thrilled and satisfied with its artistic depth.
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ISBN: 9780099503927
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 August 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 37.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 426g
Pages: 624
About the Author
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the Frederica Quartet; The Children's Book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999 and is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing'.
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