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Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulTwo scholars uncover a hidden love affair between two Victorian poets
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
1990511 pagesDemanding readSlow pace
★ Booker Prize, 1990
Scholars trace a secret Victorian love affair
Roland Michell, a young researcher, discovers drafts of letters from the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash to an unknown woman. With Maud Bailey, a scholar of the poet Christabel LaMotte, he sets out to find the truth. It won the 1990 Booker Prize and was adapted as a 2002 film.
More about this book
Who
Roland Michell, Maud Bailey, and the poets Ash and LaMotte.
World
Modern England and the Victorian world of the poets.
What makes it different
It mixes letters, poems and a modern love story.
Feel
Rich and playful.
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