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Loading... Possession (1990)by A. S. Byatt
1   Angela.Kingston | May 1, 2013 |  Recommended to me as a literary detective story across the centuries - I sort of assumed it would have some supernatural elements - ghost story style - but it has not. Nevertheless I was completely drawn in to the story and characters despite a little apprehension at the start at the thought of dusty academics studying Victorian poets. I even read (most of) the poetry! Thoroughly recommended. (  ) SChant | Apr 26, 2013 | I have to figure out what the deal is with this book. beabatllori | Apr 2, 2013 | I loved this book. But then, the Victorians were my college focus, and what could be better than a novel that combines love, detection, and mysterious poets of the presumed past. Byatt is witty and wonderful. I am forever recommending this book to customers, but I have learned to check in just a bit (some fools report it is "so wordy"). Why yes, yes it is. Delicious. (  ) jarvenpa | Mar 31, 2013 | I'm very conflicted over this one. It's a venture out of my usual territory, as I tend to avoid romances that are overtly focused on romance. The writing style tends to alternate between overwrought and beautiful. I'd like to read more of the fictional poets - that much I'm willing to grant. But I'm finding a bit hard to keep interest in the multitude of characters - and this is coming from someone who reads multi-volume histories. Some parts are well done, however - the crushing and navel-gazing world of academia, as well as a nod to the pleasure of reading and libraries in general. It's not an overtly bad book, but one that's overreaching a bit. ( ) HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 |
 This is a romance, as the subtitle suggests, but it's a romance of ideas — darkly intricate Victorian ideas and modern academic assembly-line ideas. The Victorian ideas get the better of it.  Shrewd, even cutting in its satire about how literary values become as obsessive as romantic love, in the end, “Possession” celebrates the variety of ways the books we possess come to possess us as readers. I won't be so churlish as to give away the end, but a plenitude of surprises awaits the reader of this gorgeously written novel. A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because ''Possession'' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight. Is contained inHas as a student's study guide
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Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize--the U.K.'s highest literary award--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
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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.… (more)
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