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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.
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"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, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph Ash, a literary great long assumed to be a devoted and faithful husband, and Christabel La Motte, a lesser- known "fairy poetess" and chaste spinster. At first, Roland and Maud's discovery threatens only to alter the direction of their research, but as they unearth the truth about the long- forgotten romance, their involvement becomes increasingly urgent and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journey that pulls each of them from solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic assumptions they hold about themselves, and uncovers their unique entitlement to the secret of Ash and La Motte's passion.
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Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. A.S. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear throughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female, of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. --Lisa Whipple
"Intelligent, ingenious and humane... Possession bids fair to be looked back upon as one of the most memorable novels of the 1990s" (Times Literary Supplement)
"As always, Byatt wields beautiful prose, and the mix of prose and poetry gives the book a sensuality as mysterious as anything in the plot" (Elizabeth Kostova)
"A massive, complex story about a literary mystery which turns into an emotional journey of self-discovery... The novel is a triumphant success on every level - as a critique of Victorian poetry, an unbearably moving love story and a satire on the modern 'biography industry'... Possession will be the sensation of the year" (Cosmopolitan)
"On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. On the nature of possession - the lover by the beloved, the biography by his subject - she is profound... She is ripening into our best novelist" (Evening Standard)
"As always, Byatt wields beautiful prose, and the mix of prose and poetry gives the book a sensuality as mysterious as anything in the plot" (Elizabeth Kostova)
"A massive, complex story about a literary mystery which turns into an emotional journey of self-discovery... The novel is a triumphant success on every level - as a critique of Victorian poetry, an unbearably moving love story and a satire on the modern 'biography industry'... Possession will be the sensation of the year" (Cosmopolitan)
"On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. On the nature of possession - the lover by the beloved, the biography by his subject - she is profound... She is ripening into our best novelist" (Evening Standard)
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099535157
- ISBN 13 9780099535157
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages528
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