TY - BOOK AU - Byatt,A.S. TI - Possession: a romance SN - 0679735909 : AV - PR6052.Y2 P6 1991 U1 - 823/.914 20 PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Manuscripts KW - Collectors and collecting KW - Fiction KW - Literary historians KW - Poets KW - England KW - France KW - Love stories KW - gsafd N2 - As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, & poems, & trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. Winner of England's Booker Prize, a coast-to-coast bestseller, and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is a novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets, Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion and ideas UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/91050023.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random043/91050023.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random048/91050023.html UR - http://www.archive.org/details/possessionromancbyat00byat UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1566125M ER -