Possession
A Romance
Published on 26. September 2024
Book
Hardback
624 pages
978-1-78487-999-0 (ISBN)
Description
A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic.
A pair of young scholars investigate 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. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.
'Exhilarating genius' Guardian
'Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them' Sunday Times
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE**
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
A pair of young scholars investigate 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. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.
'Exhilarating genius' Guardian
'Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them' Sunday Times
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE**
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
Reviews / Votes
[AS Byatt's] exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession -- Guardian * Harriet Harvey Wood, * A literary blockbuster -- Lisa Allardice * Guardian * Possession perfectly demonstrated that she was more than capable of humour and of spinning the sort of yarn that would keep her readers feverishly turning the pages * The Times * An entire and enchanted universe -- Elif Shafak A novel in which Byatt's heady talent triumphantly comes into its own -- Peter Kemp * The Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
624 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78487-999-0 (9781784879990)
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.