Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan) 1936-Overview
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Possession : a romance
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90 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 5,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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
The children's book : a novel
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32 editions published between 2009 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,725 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces
Babel Tower
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35 editions published between 1995 and 2012 in English and Korean and held by 2,510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In England, a woman marries into the landed gentry, only to find the life stifling. When she tries to renew with her old milieu, her husband objects. Drama follows drama, ending in a custody battle for their only child. A look at British society
The biographer's tale
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37 editions published between 2000 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 2,127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Phineas G. Nanson sets out to write a biography of a great biographer, only to discover that the fragmentary facts and bits of information are difficult to put together, a discovery that becomes a metaphor for his own complex life
A whistling woman
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27 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in English and held by 2,045 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Amid the effervescence and turbulence of the 1960s, Frederica finds a career in television in London, while events in Yorkshire threaten to turn her life and the lives of the people she loves upside down
Little black book of stories
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29 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and Turkish and held by 1,886 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Blending elements of folk tales with the darker elements of everyday life, a collection of short fiction includes the story of two middle-aged women confronting their childhood fears and the tale of a man who encounters the ghost of his living wife
Still life
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32 editions published between 1985 and 2006 in English and held by 1,806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In the 1950s, Stephanie Potter, now married to a clergyman, is conflicted about her domestic life and her strivings for intellectual fulfillment; her brilliant sister Frederica eagerly embarks on her academic (and sexual) education at Cambridge University; and their troubled brother Marcus painfully tries to find friendship and love
The Matisse stories
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24 editions published between 1993 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 1,782 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Three stories, each around a particular Matisse painting. In Medusa's Ankles, a hairdresser informs a customer he is considering leaving his wife because she has allowed her ankles to get fat. The novel describes the reaction of the customer, herself conscious of her waning looks
The Oxford book of English short stories
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18 editions published between 1998 and 2009 in English and held by 1,729 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of less-known stories by well-known writers. In Thomas Hardy's A Mere Interlude, a bride on the eve of her wedding elopes with an old flame, while Graham Greene's The Destructors is on crime during the London Blitz
Ragnarok : the end of the gods
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26 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and Danish and held by 1,712 WorldCat member libraries worldwide As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods -- a book of ancient Norse myths -- and her inner and outer worlds are transformed
The Djinn in the nightingale's eye : five fairy stories
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23 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in English and held by 1,652 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her
Elementals : stories of fire and ice
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27 editions published between 1998 and 2007 in English and held by 1,632 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of stories on the theme of opposites. In Cold, a princess from a cold climate risks her health to marry a prince from a hot desert, while in Christ in the House of Martha and Mary an artist opens a cook's eyes to cooking as art
The virgin in the garden
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44 editions published between 1978 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,548 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A new play, the highlight of a magnificent local festival celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II, brings together the young playwright and a brilliant but eccentric family whose personal dramas soon eclipse the entire production
Angels & insects : two novellas
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16 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in English and held by 1,492 WorldCat member libraries worldwide These two fascinating novellas, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society - the capture and taming of nature, whether it be a young woman in a country house or a rare butterfly, gleaming in the forests of the Amazon. "The Conjugial Angel" concerns Tennyson's In Memoriam, published in 1850, mourning the death seventeen years before of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily. A philosophical ghost story, bizarre, comic, and moving, in which fictive mediums meet "real" characters, it explores the contemporary preoccupation with God and life after death. Resonant, magical, entirely original, this is A. S. Bryant at her best
Passions of the mind : selected writings
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20 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in English and held by 1,131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of essays on the works of authors from the Victorian era to the twentieth century
On histories and stories : selected essays
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16 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The interplay between fiction and history forms the core of Byatt's essays as she explores historical storytelling and the translation of historical fact into fiction
The game : a novel
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27 editions published between 1967 and 1999 in English and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two estranged sisters are brought by a friend back into an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance that they visited as little girls
Sugar and other stories
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25 editions published between 1987 and 2007 in English and French and held by 972 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of short stories that are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. The author of Possession explores the fragile ties between generations and the elaborate memories we construct against loss, resulting in a book rich in knowledge, compassion, and wonder. "An outstanding collection. . . ".--The Sunday Times (London)
The mill on the floss
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26 editions published between 1979 and 2003 in English and held by 959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A Victorian mill owner and the lord of a manor start a family feud which ends in tragedy for two young lovers
The children's book [a novel]
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17 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 790 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn across Europe and a golden era comes to an end with the beginning of World War I"--Container more
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