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Original Title:	Possession
ISBN:	0679735909 (ISBN13: 9780679735908)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Maud Bailey, Roland Michell, Christabel LaMotte, Randolph Henry Ash, Leonora Stern, Mortimer Cropper, James Blackadder, Beatrice Nest, Val, Euan MacIntyre, Ellen Ash, Blanche Glover, Sabine de Kerkoz
Setting:	London, England Lincoln, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1990), Irish Times International Fiction Prize (1990), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (1991)

Possession

A.S. Byatt

Paperback | Pages: 555 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 67500 Users | 4173 Reviews

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Title	:	Possession
Author	:	A.S. Byatt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 555 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1991 by Vintage (first published October 17th 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Classics. Mystery

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Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover 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.

Man Booker Prize Winner (1990)

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Too much work for too little reward.I read somewhere that if you pick up a book, and you're not enjoying it by either: a) your age (if you are under 50); or b) 100 minus your age (if you are over 50), you should abandon it and move on. There is too much to read and life is too short to be spent reading bad books.I think this applies particularly to books in that grey zone, where you can tell the writer is winding up to something, and the style and story has enough ooomph in it to keep you

Like many biographies... this was as much about its author as its subject.AS Byatt has characters describing biography as a form of religion a form of ancestor worship. She is a novelist who loves the academic approach to biography, applied to fiction and semi-fiction, creating po-mo metafiction that is rich in texture and research, but which can be a little hard for mortals to digest. There are two main timelines here: a pair of Victorian poets (Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte,



Stolen snapshots that defy the laws of space and time:Past.A poet observes a mystical creature, half woman half mermaid, scouting cliffs and creeks, bathing in unruly seas and still ponds, getting drenched in the cascade of his flowing words. The ache of losing God is not so acute when intellect is met with incandescent creativity. Or with unrestrained love. His gentle curiosity breathes life into inert things, making them shine with an inner glow of their own, because he doesnt aspire to

Artfully Told Tale of Academics, Victorian Poets and RomanceI wanted to like this book more than I actually did.Many Goodreaders really like this metafictional novel, which contains a story (and poetry) within a story. There is much to admire here.The author skillfully interweaves two time periods. One was 1987 (close to the time the novel was written), the other nineteenth century Victorian England.She not only invents two poets, but writes a lot of their poetry. The skill and brilliance

"With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?" -Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)Indeed, Calvin. You speak the truth. And thanks to slogging through a sample portion of that intimidating & impenetrable fog known as Possession, I've learned an important lesson. Lend me your ears, gentle reader -- I'm about to whisper another truth that's been missing from your day-to-day literary drudgery.A.S. Byatt is smart. Oh, yes. A.S. Byatt

This was mainly my fault. What went through my mind when I decided to read a book about a love story between two poets when I do not like poetry? Didnt it cross my mind that there was going to be poetry in this novel? The answer is, not really. I read in the synopsis that there were going to be letters and a literary investigation. It sounded intriguing and it was a Booker winner, among which I found a few gems. After skipping quite a bit I have the following observations: 1. WARNING! Do not