Possession

By A. S. Byatt

Subjects: FICTION / General, English Poets, Man-woman relationships--england--fiction, Poets, english--fiction, England, fiction, Collectors and collecting, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Manuscripts--collectors and collecting--england--fiction, FICTION / Literary, Manuscripts--collectors and collecting, Literary historians, Manuscripts, FICTION / Historical, Authors, fiction, Chang pian xiao shuo, Historical fiction, Fiction, Polish language materials, Fiction in Italian, Pr6052.y2 p6 1991, Man-woman relationships, Poets, History and criticism, Fiction, romance, general, English literature, American literature, Biographers, 823/.914, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, biographical, Poets, english

Description: Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, *Possession* is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover 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. 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.