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The Arabian Nights by Richard F. Burton (Translator); A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad alway ...Show more
The Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY 'In th ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children's book author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and frie ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
Category: Fiction
This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of ...Show more
The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories by A S Byatt
Category: Fiction
A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale.
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A S Byatt
Category: Fiction
The magnificent stories in this "New York Times" Notable Book range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy. 5 illustrations.
The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Frederica Potter Novels Ser.
A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided. The author won the Booker Prize and the "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990 for "Possession".
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
Category: History
With a novelist's insight and eye for detail A S Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, against the background of the great changes of their times - in society, politics, education and literature. As she charts their personal lives, traces thegrowth of their ideas and shows ho ...Show more