Possession (1991)
Fiction / Literary, - Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, - Fiction / Romance / Historical / Victorian -
NOT_MATURE -
A. S. Byatt
Overview
<b>BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br></b><br>Winner of England’s Booker Prize and a literary sensation, <i>Possession </i>traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth 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.