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1	Possession: A Romance more books like this by A S Byatt 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Angels & Insects: Two Novellas more books like this by A S Byatt ANGELS AND INSECTS comprises two novellas, each set in the 19th century. In the first, "Morpho Eugenia," a young entomologist named William Adamson is employed as a cataloguer by a clergyman with an interest in insects. The man has a devastatingly beautiful daughter, the eponymous Eugenia, with whom William falls helplessly in love. "Morpho ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights more books like this by Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator), A S Byatt (Introduction by) An unexpurgated edition of Richard Burton's classic translation of "The Thousand and One Nights." see all copies from $3.85! new only from $5.19! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Matisse Stories more books like this by A. S. Byatt 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 between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Biographer's Tale more books like this by A S Byatt In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Babel Tower more books like this by A S Byatt In "Babel Tower" a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life") now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Possession more books like this by Byatt Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems, they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Still Life more books like this by Byatt In this sequel to "The Virgin in the Garden", Byatt illuminates the conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Possession: A Romance more books like this by A S Bayatt, A S Byatt 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Virgin in the Garden more books like this by A S Byatt A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided. The author won the Booker Prize and the "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990 for "Possession". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Game more books like this by A. S. Byatt Cassandra, an Oxford don, and Julia, a best-selling novelist, are sisters who share disturbing memories of a bizarre childhood game - and of Simon, who loved them both. The memories re-surface when they see Simon on a television programme, and their relationship is played out to a fatal finish. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Whistling Woman more books like this by A S Byatt While Frederica - the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life and Babel Tower - falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves. In the late 1960s the world begins to split. Near the university, where ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Little Black Book of Stories more books like this by A. S. Byatt A new collection of Byatt stories is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn. A. S. Byatt's short stories never fail to delight - but this new collection brings shivers as well as magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David Constantine (Translator), A S Byatt (Preface by) Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $5.50!
15 view cover	Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye more books like this by Byatt A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Oxford Book of English Short Stories more books like this by A S Byatt (Editor) The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt,herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories more books like this by A S Byatt Five long stories based on folk or fairy tales. The title story is actually a novella about a woman who is granted three wishes by a djinn. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Angels & Insects more books like this by A S Byatt A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession," winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment more books like this by Marina Warner (Editor), Sophie Herxheimer (Illustrator), A S Byatt (Translator) These six tales were written by five aristocratic women and one gentleman living in the Paris of Louis XIV. When artful storytelling was a key social grace and the wonders of magic, metamorphosis, and love were prized as the highest virtues of any tale, these examples of fairy-tale literature were regarded as delightful masterpieces. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings more books like this by A S Byatt A collection of A.S. Byatt's literary criticism and book reviews. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	On Histories and Stories more books like this by Byatt As novelists become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history, this study is designed to redraw the map of the boundaries of modern fiction. In her opening essays - "Fathers", "Forefathers" and "Ancestors" - the author considers the renaissance of the historical novel. She discusses in particular the novel of wartime ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $11.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Sugar & Other Stories more books like this by A S Byatt The constant theme running through this collection of short stories, the first collection by A.S. Byatt, is that of repetition, taking the form of family patterns recurring across generations, the return of the past in the form of ghosts and the disruptive force of family stories. A.S. Byatt was the winner of the Silver Pen Award for her novel ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Shadow of the Sun more books like this by A S Byatt First published in 1964, this is the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of 17 to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice more books like this by A. S. Byatt Six stories, each a variation on the theme of "extremes and polarities." A New York Times Notable Book in 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Bird Hand Book more books like this by Victor Schrager (Photographer), A S Byatt (Commentaries by) Vivid photographs and stunning dialogue that will entertain, inspire, and engage nature lovers and photography enthusiasts alike. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions

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