Stock photo. Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available.
Possession
A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
ISBN: 0060527099
ISBN-13: 9780060527099
Format: Audio Cassette
|
Summary
Maud Bailey is a scholar researching the life and work of her distant relative, a little known 19th-century poet named Christabel LaMotte. Roland Mitchell is looking into an obscure moment in the life of another Victorian poet, the celebrated Randolph Henry Ash. Together, the two uncover a dark secret in Ash's life: though apparently happily married, he conducted a torrid affair with LaMotte that has never before come to light. As Maud and Roland dig into the facts, they also find themselves falling in love. A.S. Byatt cleverly evokes the world of the Victorians, juxtaposing it to the dryer, less passionate lives of her modern-day protagonists. She also has created extremely convincing letters and love poetry, ostensibly by each of the poets. As the truth about the past emerges, it also illuminates the present-and changes it radically.
Customer Reviews
Review this book!
Media Reviews
"At once literary and highly readable, the book boasts a compelling narrative...This wonderfully written work is highly recommended."
-- Library Journal
"POSSESION is inordinate, but not indiscriminate; it is unfashionable; it is generous, teeming with more ideas than a year's worth of ordinary novels." -- Anita Brookner
-- Spectator
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harperaudio
Published date: 2002
Size: 4 x 7.5 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire -- from spiritualist sénces to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas. Performed by Virginia Leishman
Other Editions
Similar books
The Rebel Angels
by Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies uses his magical touch to weave together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder, and scholarship at a modern university.
The Captive and the Fugitive
by Marcel Proust
In The Captive, Proust's narrator is living with Albertine in his mother's Paris apartment. He is chronically concerned about who she may or may not love. In The Fugitive, Albertine is irretrievably lost to him, and he retreats to Venice, where he receives a telegram from Gilberte, Swann's red-haired daughter. Rich with irony, the story inspires meditations on desire, homosexuality, music, and the art of introspection. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions.
Time Regained/a Guide to Proust
by Marcel Proust
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature - his past life. This volume also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, an index to all six volumes of the novel. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions.
Balthazar
by Lawrence Durrell
In sessions with Balthazar, his psychiatrist, an exiled Irish schoolteacher tries to come to terms with his obsessive relationships with Melissa, a cafe dancer, and Justine, the Jewish wife of a wealthy Coptic Christian.
Justine
by Lawrence Durrell
The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed and purblind characters in this mesmerizing first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, the pursuit of knowledge leads to no library, only to the bedrooms in which each seeks to know--and possess--the other. Since its publication 1957, "Justine" has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics. It is not so much a book as it is a self-contained universe, constructed by one of the most elegant and formidably intelligent minds in contemporary fiction.
|
|
Ready to buy this book?
Below are all of the copies of 9780060527099 we currently have available for purchase, sorted by lowest price first. If you would like to refine your search, use the advanced options in the search box above.
|
|
1)
|
Possession
A.s. Byatt
HarperAudio. Audiobook CASSETTE. 0060527099 THIS IS AN UNABRIDGED EX-LIBRARY AUDIO BOOK. THE BOOK IS 23 HOURS LONG AND IS READ BY VIRGINIA LEISHMAN. THE CASSETTES PLAY FINE AND THE CASE IS FINE. THIS IS THE RECORDED BOOKS VERSION . Very Good. ( more information)
Offered by GORGON BOOKS (United States)
|
|
|
2)
|
Possession (Qty: 2)
Byatt, A.s
HarperAudio. Audiobook CASSETTE. 0060527099 No remainder mark Thank you for looking at Bookscorner1.No sale isever final.100%satisfaction guaranteed. . New. ( more information)
Offered by bookscorner1 (United States)
|
|
|
4)
|
Possession
Byatt, A.S
NY: HarperCollins, 2002. Audio Book. VERY GOOD. Unabridged. 17 Cassettes. Running Time: Approx.23 hours. Slipcase is intact but very worn at edges. Performed by Virginia Leishman. "an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story." Winner of England's Booker Prize. ISBN: 0060527099. ( more information)
Offered by Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (United States)
|
|
|
5)
|
Possession
A.s. Byatt
HarperAudio. Audiobook CASSETTE. 0060527099 THIS IS AN UNABRIDGED EX-LIBRARY AUDIO BOOK. THE BOOK IS 23 HOURS LONG AND IS READ BY VIRGINIA LEISHMAN. THE CASSETTES PLAY FINE AND THE CASE IS FINE. . Very Good. ( more information)
Offered by GORGON BOOKS (United States)
|
|
|
6)
|
Possession
Byatt, A.s
HarperAudio, 01-Aug-2002. -. NEW. Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: U20081107143658G ( more information)
Offered by A1Books (United States)
|
|
|
7)
|
Possession
A.S. Byatt
HarperAudio, 2002. 2002. Audio Cassette. Very Good/Very Good. This is a nice package 17 cassettes, unabridged, readby By Virginia Leishman satisfaction guaranteed. ( more information)
Offered by Live Oak Books (United States)
|
|
|
8)
|
Possession [UNABRIDGED]
A.S. Byatt, Leishman Virginia
Audio Cassette (Audio Book). Brand New, Never Used, Perfect Condition. Orders take 5-7 days to process and ship. ( more information)
Offered by PapaMedia.com (United States)
|
|
|
0 items in cart
Muze Inc. For personal non-commercial use only. All rights reserved. Some content for books is owned by Baker & Taylor, Inc. or its licensors and is subject to copyright and all other protections provided by applicable law.
