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Author:

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

Title:

Possession : a romance / A.S. Byatt.

Edition:

1st Vintage International ed.

Publisher:

Vintage Books,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

555 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Fiction.
Literary historians--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Poets--Fiction.
France--Fiction.
Love stories.

Summary:

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. 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.

ISBN:

9780679735908
0679735909

OCLC:

(OCoLC)23652129

LCCN:

91050023

Locations:

OYAX081 -- Boone Campus Library (Boone)

AGPE046 -- Drake Public Library (Centerville)

AJPE887 -- Matilda J. Gibson Memorial Library (Creston)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YYPC162 -- Mechanicsville Public Library (Mechanicsville)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)