Possession

Name: Possession
ISBN: 9780679735908

A. S. Byatt

1990

Historical Fiction Mystery

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★ Booker Prize (1990) · Winner

“Gorgeously written … A tour de force.”
— The New York Times Book Review

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. Possession 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.

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