| Angels & Insects: Two Novellas Contributor(s): Byatt, A. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679751343 ISBN-13: 9780679751342 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in "Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality" ("San Francisco Examiner). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93043495 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.22" W x 8" (0.72 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy with] extraordinary sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner). |