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A. S. Byatt

The Essential Guide

Margaret Reynolds author Jonathan Noakes author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Feb '04

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An accessible yet intellectually thorough guide to the work of A. S. Byatt, offering helpful insights into her major novels and stories and including an exclusive author interview.

In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A. Byatt's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A. S. Byatt. Also included is an exclusive in-depth interview with A. S. Byatt relating specifically to the novels under discussion.

A. S. Byatt's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Amongst many other features you'll find inspirational reading plans and contextual material, suggested complementary and comparative reading and an indispensable glossary.

Featured texts: Possession, Angels & Insects, and A Whistling Woman.

This makes me want to read my own books all over again -- Louis de Bernieres on Louis de Bernieres: The Essential Guide
I didn't realise just how good the series was until I started working closely with it. The questions are so thoughtful and probing...the texts really do occupy their own niche between guides purely for teachers and the ubiquitous student crib, and are much better than either -- Head of English, Newington College

ISBN: 9780099452218

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 171g

240 pages