by A.S. Byatt · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099800408
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«Possession» is the literary mystery and romance novel by A.S. Byatt, published by Vintage in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Roland Mitchell and Maud Bailey, two academics, investigate the Victorian poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte. From the letters, diaries and poems they trace, they uncover a hidden relationship that links the Victorian past with the researchers' present, in a plot combining detective novel, romance and critique of academic life.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1990, originally published that same year; the Vintage edition dates from 1991.
For readers of romantic, historical and mystery fiction, with an interest in Victorian literature and the academic world.
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
