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Ragnarok
The End of the Gods
Av A.S. Byatt
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.Linguistically stunning and imaginatively …
Possession
A Romance
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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In this stunning literary mystery, two scholars uncover a hidden love affair that refuses to stay buried. Roland Michell is a young academic drifting through obscurity when he discovers a letter in the archive of the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash. The letter hints at a secret relationship with …
Possession
Av A.S. Byatt
Ljudbok, 2005
715 kr
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Winner of England''s Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and …
Whistling Woman
Av A.S. Byatt
Häftad, 2003
239 kr
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It is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. While she endeavours to navigate this fast-paced and occasionally bewildering industry, her lover John takes up a post working with a pair of unusual scientists. Yet in Frederica’s home county of …
Children's Book
Av A.S. Byatt
Häftad, 2010
152 kr
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Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the …
On Histories & Stories - Selected Essays (Cobee)
Selected Essays
Av AS Byatt
Häftad, 2002
544 kr
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In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing and remembering, gifted novelist and critic Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time.
Little Black Book of Stories
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2018
102 kr
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A new collection of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as delights. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their fears and memories and …
Body Art (Storycuts)
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2011
57 kr
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Damien, a gynaecological consultant and lapsed Catholic, replaces Christian icons with modern art; he worships the absence of God in the abstract staining of paint and ink. But when a vagrant young art student shows up in the ward, he once more has cause to question his personal and aesthetic …
Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2011
57 kr
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Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves.Part of …
Matisse Stories
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2018
102 kr
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Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being.Their subjects' lives unravel from simple …
Shadow of the Sun
A Novel
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2021
102 kr
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It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver Canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her future. As autumn begins and …
Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye
Five Fairy Stories
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2018
102 kr
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**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton …
Babel Tower
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2021
102 kr
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After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a …
Elementals
Stories of Fire and Ice
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2018
102 kr
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In the same delectable format as The Matisse Stories, this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; …
On Histories and Stories
Selected Essays
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2018
125 kr
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In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new 'Darwinian …
Portraits In Fiction
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2018
108 kr
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Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, as motifs, as images of character and evocations of past time. A. S. Byatt delves into the complex …
Sugar And Other Stories
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2018
102 kr
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It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Possession are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. A S Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate …
Peacock and Vine
Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2016
170 kr
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This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and Knossos; William Morris, a British craftsman, in thrall to …
Medusa’s Ankles
Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner
Av A.S. Byatt
Häftad, 2023
146 kr
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A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by David MitchellByatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when …
Cold
The perfect Christmas gift with an afterword by R.F. Kuang
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2026
229 kr
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A tale of mythic beauty, elemental passion and hope from one of our greatest storytellers, with an afterword by R.F. Kuang.'The snow did not numb Fiammarosa; it pricked and hummed and brought her, intensely, to life . . . This is who I am, the cold princess thought to herself, wriggling for sheer …
Possession
Av A.S. Byatt
Inbunden, 2013
215 kr
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When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is determined to uncover the truth.Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, Possession defies categorization. Rich in …
The Women Writers' Handbook
Av A.S. Byatt, Philippa Gregory m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
187 kr
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To celebrate Aurora Metro's 30th anniversary as an independent publisher, 20% of profits will to go to the Virginia Woolf statue campaign in the UK. This is a revised edition of the publisher's inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its …
Das Buch der Kinder
Roman
Av A.S. Byatt
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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A.S. Byatt - Booker-Preis Gewinnerin und von der Queen ernannte ›Dame Commander of the British Empire‹ - umspannt in ihrem neuen, opulenten Roman ein Vierteljahrhundert, die Jahre von 1895 bis kurz nach dem 1. Weltkrieg.Im Süden Englands, in London, Paris und im zügellosen Schwabing suchen die …
