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A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Frederica Potter Novels Ser.
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, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves.In the late 1960s the world be ...Show more
A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt
Category: Fiction
Frederica is the spirited heroine of three earlier Byatt novels. In this, the concluding volume of the quartet, she falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy drea ...Show more
Angels and Insects by A. S. Byatt
Category: Fiction
Like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious individu ...Show more
Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
Category: Fiction
A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession", winner of the 1990 Booker Prize.
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Frederica Potter Novels Ser.
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly co ...Show more
Biographer's Tale,the by Byatt A S
Category: Fiction
The Biographer’s Tale is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who, yearning for reality, decides to abandon his arcane studies in postmodern literary theory and write a biography, for what could be more concrete than a biography, the "art of things, of arranged facts"? As he f ...Show more
Elementals by A.S. Byatt
Category: Fiction
These stories deal with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, and loneliness and passion. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives. A woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world.
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A S Byatt
Category: Fiction
"Complex, amusing, clever, and thought-provoking" ("The Plain Dealer"), this collection of stories by the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession" transports readers to a world where opposites--passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice--clash and converge. 6 illustrations.
Faust (Part 2) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Read by); David Constantine (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator); A. S. Byatt (Preface by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Faust Ser.
Der 1749 in Frankfurt am Main geborene Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Dichter. Seine Werke gehören zu den wichtigsten der Weltliteratur."Faust" ist ein Meisterwerk. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Pakt mit dem Teufel. Der zentrale Konflikt rankt sich um die Frage nach der Wahrheit ...Show more
Imagining Characters - Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison by A. S. Byatt; Ignes Sodre
Category: Culture | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An U ...Show more