Possession

Possession

$22.95 AUD $10.00 AUD

Availability: in stock at our Melbourne warehouse.




NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: A.S. Byatt

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 528


Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. POSSESSION follows the scholarly Roland Michell and the steely Maud Bailey as they attempt to uncover an affair between Randolph Henry Ash, a famous Victorian poet, and a Bohemian poetess, Christabel LaMotte, Maud's ancestor. The trail of the Victorian lovers takes Roland and Maud from Lincoln to Whitby, then on to France. They uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy while they battle aginst time, other academics and their own burgeoning romance.
Reviews

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
Description
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: A.S. Byatt

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 528


Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. POSSESSION follows the scholarly Roland Michell and the steely Maud Bailey as they attempt to uncover an affair between Randolph Henry Ash, a famous Victorian poet, and a Bohemian poetess, Christabel LaMotte, Maud's ancestor. The trail of the Victorian lovers takes Roland and Maud from Lincoln to Whitby, then on to France. They uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy while they battle aginst time, other academics and their own burgeoning romance.