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Possession
Reader Score
88%
88% of readers
recommend this book
Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Oct 1st, 1991
- Pages: 576
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.06in - 5.22in - 1.06in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9780679735908
- Categories: • Literary• Romance - Contemporary• Romance - Historical - Victorian
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What people are saying
Erica Wagner is an author and critic.
Oh, A S Byatt. #Possession was the novel that made me want to be a writer, to live in writing. And then her other work showed the possibilities of tales that inhabited mind, soul, heart, earth. What a loss.
"One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit love spanning two centuries."
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WHITBY. another vintage british travel poster, this time for the north-eastern shores of whitby. one of the most interesting towns in all of england (and featured in both bram stoker's DRACULA and a.s. byatt's POSSESSION), this poster is a lovely riot of color. #WORTHWHILEDESIGN https://t.co/SKJlxrwH3A
Praise for this book
"What a book! This is a novel for every taste.... An altogether magical performance." --The Washington Post Book World
"A masterpiece of wordplay and adventure, a novel that compares with Stendhal and Joyce." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A genuine winner ... original and unforgettable." --Time
"The most dazzling novel of the year." --USA Today
What people are saying
Erica Wagner is an author and critic.
Oh, A S Byatt. #Possession was the novel that made me want to be a writer, to live in writing. And then her other work showed the possibilities of tales that inhabited mind, soul, heart, earth. What a loss.
"One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit love spanning two centuries."