Antonia Susan Byatt

A tale spanning the end of the Victorian era through World War I finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway and exposing the boy to dark truths about her family's summer bacchanals at their rambling country house.

A Novel

The Children's Book

Three stories, each touched by the paintings of Henri Matisse.

The Matisse Stories

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 End of the Gods

Ragnarok

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

The Virgin in the Garden

Presents two novellas--"The Conjugal Angel," which reveals human preoccupation with God and life after death, and "Morpho Eugenia," a gothic fable about Victorian obsessions with Darwinism and sexuality

Two Novellas

Angels & Insects

The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents a selection of original fairy tales, including "The Glass Coffin," "Gode's Story," "The Eldest Princess," "Dragons' Breath," and the title-length novella. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Five Fairy Stories

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize--the U.K.'s highest literary award--Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. A.S. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear throughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female, of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. Amazon.

Possession

Ignes Sodre

Ignês Sodré

The author of the best-selling novel Possession and a psycholanalyst engage in a free-wheeling, penetrating discussion of six novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte+a5, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison. Original. 12,500 first printing.

Conversations about Women Writers : Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison

Imagining Characters

Babel Tower Is The Third Novel In Byatt'S Highly Acclaimed Frederica Quartet. Frederica Is Embroiled In Two Law Cases, Twin Strands Of The Establishment'S Web, A Painful Divorce And Custody Suit And The Prosecution Of An 'Obscene' Book. Frederica'S Personal And Legal Crises Mirror An Age; Alongside Frederica'S Intellectual Life Teaching At Art School In London Are The Diverging Cultural Worlds Of The Beatles And The Advent Of Computer Languages.

Babel Tower

Offers a collection of stories about the struggle to communicate and find love in a complex and ever-ambiguous world, in a volume that includes "Racine and the Tablecloth," "The Changeling," and "Sugar"

Sugar and Other Stories

Possessione. Una storia romantica

"These two novellas are set in the mid-19th-century, weaving together fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise; "The Conjugal Angel" is a philosophical ghost story"--Provided by publisher.

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.

The Biographer's Tale

The imaginary retreat of two young sisters becomes a dangerous game when they grow older and become vulnerable to a man determined to control their thoughts

The Game

The extended version of a lecture given by Byatt at London's National Portrait Gallery in 2000, about portraits in fiction and about portraits of writers of fiction.

Portraits in Fiction

From the best-selling author of Possession.

Selected Writings

Passions of the Mind

La destinée du jeune professeur Roland Mitchell paraît étrangement liée à celle du grand poète victorien Randolph Henry Ash dont il est un des plus grands spécialistes. Le jour où, d'un livre poussiéreux, il exhume deux lettres d'amour que le poète adresse à une tendre inconnue, cette découverte bouleverse le cours de ses travaux... et de sa vie. Sur les traces du grand homme, le jeu de piste est ouvert : documents volés, amours clandestines, suicide romantique peuplent l'aventure qui dépassera bientôt le simple cadre d'une recherche universitaire. Possession, couronné en 1990 par le prestigieux Booker Prize, est un récit haletant, subtil mélange d'érudition, de romance et de suspense, qui a été traduit dans vingt-deux pays et a rencontré un succès mondial. L'adaptation de ce chef-d'œuvre au cinéma est signée par Neil LaBute (En compagnie des hommes, 1999 et Nurse Betty, 2001), avec Gwyneth Paltrow et Aaron Eckhart dans les rôles principaux.

roman romanesque

With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge against the background of the great changes of their times - in society, politics, education and literature. As she charts their personal lives, traces the growth of their ideas, and shows how these are reflected in their work, readers are presented with pictures not only of the two poets themselves, but also of their families, friends and contemporaries, including Southey, de Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron and Keats.

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