The reputation of British novelist A. S. Byatt soared in this country after the publication of Possession. Winner of England's 1990 Booker Prize, Possession was the critical and commercial success that called national attention to a w...
This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great "Frederica quartet" depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970.While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, St...
[O]f all [Byatt's] fictions, it now seems to me that it is the short stories that are most likely to endure....[M]y reaction to these stories is one of joy in their exhilaration, intelligence, boldness and inventiveness, and a sort of...
A young academic couple's attempt to trace the relationship between two turbulent, romantic, and superstitious Victorian poets reveals uncanny parallels with their own lives and culminates in the exhumation of a poet's corpse. Reissue...
Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous chi...
These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection...
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
A. S. ByattAn anthology of stories explores the theme of opposites--alienation and passion, life and art--in the tales of a woman who feels the need to flee after witnessing her husband's death and that of a princess from a cold climate who marr...
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories (Vi...
A. S. ByattA ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Rev...
A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us t...
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A. S. ByattThe magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marve...
The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an a...
From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for fact.Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student...
This fourth book in A. S. Byatt's series about Frederica Potter takes her heroine into London, where she is the host of a TV program about the arts. She also becomes involved with a religious cult and its charismatic leader, Joshua Ra...
A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging of a play about Elizabeth I.
Angels & Insects: Two Novellas
A. S. ByattIn these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality a...
"Brilliantly effective. . . . Surely among the most beautiful and incisive [pages] Byatt has ever written."-Paul Binding, The Independent (UK)"A brilliant, highly intelligent, fiercely personal rendition of the Scandina...
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease
A. S. ByattPerforming a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud's classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror writing, this freshly contemporary collection of literary interpretations reintroduces to the world Freu...