Possession

A Romance

A S Byatt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Feb '91

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This thrilling novel of romance, literary history, intrigue, poetry and high drama is a modern classic

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

A triumphant success on every level * Cosmopolitan *
Teeming with more ideas than a year's worth of ordinary novels * Spectator *
This is a novel for every taste: a heartbreaking Victorian love story, a take-no-prisoners comedy of contemporary academic life, and an unputdownable supernatural mystery. You turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had the chance to read it * Washington Post *
Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them * Sunday Times *
Our best novelist * Evening Standard *

  • Winner of Booker Prize 1990

ISBN: 9780099800408

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 32mm

Weight: 450g

624 pages