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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review 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.
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Possession. A romance, A. S. Antonia Susan Byatt
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- Released
- 1990
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- A. S. Antonia Susan Byatt
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0679735909
- ISBN13
- 9780679735908
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Poetry, Love, Classics, Suspense, France, Fun, England, Secrets, Lyric, Letters, Poets, Dark Academia
- First published
- 1990
- Original title
- Possession
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review 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.