Possession (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375712356 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender it This is the second time that I use a Thomas Browne quote taken from the reviewed book as headline for a book review here. First time was for Sebald's Rings of Saturn. That book has with this one more things in common than Browne: both contain extensive walks through English countrysides. (Maybe it is time for me to look at Browne himself; if others keep quoting him, there must be something.)Byatt's labyrinthine Possession is of comparable erudition a. J. Day Mattson said Not Just a Romance. When my sister gave me this book and told me I had to read it, I was hesitant. I'm not one for most romance novels, but the art on the cover intrigued me. Once I began, I couldn't stop. Byatt seamlessly weaves two relationships set years apart into a delightful, inventive, breathtakingly written whole. The characters, especially the poets in the earlier story, seem so real, and so much of their world is meticulously created, down to some of the poets. Classic Romance for People with Brains This is romance in the classical tradition --- intelligent, witty, mysterious, and haunting. I first read the book five years ago and have re-read it several times since. It is a pure pleasure to read for the beauty of the prose alone. Add to that the delights of some very interesting characters and descriptive passages that remain haunting long after the book is finished and you have a novel worthy of being called a "romance".I have been discouraged
Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear throughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female, of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize--the U.K.'s highest literary award--Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journe
A. The result is both a gripping story and a brilliant exploration of the nature of love and obsession—and of what we can know about the past.Book Jacket Status: JacketedIntroduction by Philip Hensher. S. Byatt’s beloved novel—winner of the Booker Prize and an international best seller—is a spellbinding intellectual mystery and an utterly transfixing love story. After coming across hints of a long-buried and potentially explosive secret in the poets’ letters and journals, Maud and Roland join forces to track their subjects’ movements from London to Yorkshire to Brittany, tracing clues embedded in poems and hunting down evidence in dusty archives and in a freshly opened grave. Roland Michell and Maud Bailey are young academics in the 1980s researching the lives of two Victorian literary figures: the major poet Randolph Henry Ash and the lesser-known “fairy poetess” Christabel LaMotte. Their eagerness to uncover the truth draws the two lonely scholars together, but what they discover will have implications they could not have imagined. An extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas, POSSESSION is woven throughout with invented historical documents and poetry of dazzling richness and depth, bringing Byatt’s Victorian chara