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Angels And Insects

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099224310

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • RRP: £9.99

Angels And Insects

Like A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious individuals – some fictional, others drawn from history – gather to connect with the spirit world. Throughout both, Byatt examines the eccentricities of the Victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099224310

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "Her plot is as compelling as that of a classical detective story, but it is the quality of the writing - its use and unity of metaphor, its sensuous language, its wit and intellectual playfulness - which renders it remarkable"

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About the Author

A S Byatt

Harriet Harvey Wood is the former Head of Literature at the British Council. A.S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story-writer and critic. Her books include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

A S Byatt

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