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Byatt, A.S. Angels & Insects : Two Novellas
New York Random House 1992 0679405127 / 9780679405122 Paperback Good Paperback
Light edge-rubbing and cover scuffing. Inside is clean and excellent with no markings. This is a very nice book! From Publishers Weekly: Revisiting the Victorian ambience of Possession , Byatt treats her large audience to more extraordinary literary gamesmanship with two intricate novellas. In "Morpho Eugenia" penniless young entomologist William Adamson has just returned from a 10-year expedition in the Amazon. William is taken in by a titled clergyman with scientific pretensions, and soon marries his benefactor's beautiful daughter. Unable to undertake another Amazon adventure, he studies domestic ant colonies and discovers indecent parallels between the insects and his new family. "The Conjugial Angel" involves a circle of spiritualists, chief among them Alfred Tennyson's sister Emily, in her youth engaged to Arthur Hallam, the man immortalized in Tennyson's In Memorium . Emily has been branded faithless for having married years after Hallam's death (Elizabeth Barrett called her a "disgrace to womanh Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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Byatt, A.S. Matisse Stories, The
New York Random House 1995 0679438823 / 9780679438823 Softcover Very Good Softcover
Bethlehem Library Start: Light shelf wear hardly worth mentioning. Inside is clean and perfect. Softcover with 134-pages. From Publishers Weekly: In three masterfully written stories loosely inspired by Matisse paintings, Byatt (Possession) dazzles with her evocation of sensuous detail while adroitly emphasizing the interconnectedness of life and art. In each one, a woman teetering on the edge of losing her emotional equilibrium finds a small nugget of comfort after some unsettling surprises. Susannah, the troubled middle-aged heroine of "Medusa's Ankle," is drawn into a hairdressing salon by a Matisse reproduction on the wall. Byatt understands that a woman is most acutely vulnerable looking at her unadorned image in a mirror, and when the self-absorbed hairdresser confides that he plans to leave his wife for a young lover, Susannah's sudden outburst as she contemplates the loss of her youth, her attractiveness and her future is movingly real. Dr. Gerda Himmelblau, "a solitary intellectual nearing re Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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