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Book Description
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Possession is a novel about letters: their discovery, their possession, the stories they tell. "They wrote a lot, in those days," says Toby, a lawyer dealing with "the most ferocious wrangle about a correspondence between dead poets that someone's ju ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
10 Reviews
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nutsmuggler said on Feb 5, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Half and half
The romance of the two dead poets: too much of a Gothic story. Much enjoyed the modern couple's romance, though. It is comic, in characters and its askew mirroring of the other romance. The best thing about the novel is where, apart from all the letters, journals, manuscripts that are cunningly and ... (continue)
Yenney Lai said on Sep 21, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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msibat said on Feb 24, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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A modern novel, that won the booker prize and yet I still really liked this book. It was so well done, it was the total opposite of The Historian, or Jonathon Strange, but was actually a book about research and literature and the Victorians written by someone who really knew and understood the perio ... (continue)
Robot-mel said on Dec 24, 2010 | Add your feedback
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Don't let the romantic aura put you off
I always assumed that the novel Possession, which was made into a film staring Gweneth Paltrow, was some sort of steamy, shallow romance novel. When I had to read this for a literature class in college, I was pleasantly surprised. The novel takes place amid a richly woven background of mythology a ... (continue)
currerbell said on Oct 28, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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I loved the quality of the writing and the writerly skill on display in the various styles and periods of writing carried off in this novel are very impressive.
The love story between two unlovely university literary academics is unengaging and I tired of the detailed trivia of professional ca ... (continue)
huntch said on Nov 30, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- ISBN-10: 1417718595
- ISBN-13: 9781417718597
- Publisher: Tandem Library
- Pub date: Oct 01, 1991
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Fantasy world
The declaration on the title page of Possession suggests that this is a peculiar kind of novel, operating by special rules. Possession: A Romance, its full title announces, as if proclaiming its difference from the usual run of novels. Already we mig ... (read full critics)