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    Death Comes for the Archbishop: Introduction by A. S. Byatt

    Willa Cather

    Jean Marie Latour travels to his Vicarate in New Mexico, hoping to establish the Catholic Church among its inhabitants.

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    Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings

    A. S. Byatt,Byatt

    Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the…

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    Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

    A S Byatt (Harvard University)

    The gods meet their cataclysmic end in this acclaimed work of fiction from the inimitable author of Possession and The Children’s Book, now in paperback. As the bombs rain down…

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    Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories

    A. S. Byatt

    Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt’s short stories. 

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    Melusine The Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt’s Possession and in Mythology

    Gillian Alban

    This work pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession , into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient…

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    A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women: Fictions, Histories, Myths

    Leanne Bibby

    The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply…

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    Iris Murdoch

    A. S. Byatt

    In this
    1976 study, A. S. Byatt examines Murdoch's fiction and main philosophical
    ideas, relating the two and providing the reader with illuminating insights
    into the larger dimensions of the…

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    Memory

    Harriet Harvey Wood,A. S. Byatt

    Presents an anthology that introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. This book features…

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    The Shadow of the Sun

    A S Byatt (University College London)

    This is the debut novel by the author of the bestselling Possession. Byatt tells the story of troubled, sensitive seventeen-year-old Anna Severell, who struggles to discover and develop her own…

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    Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt

    Lisa M. Fiander

    Fiander (English, U. of Alberta) examines themes that lurk beneath the uncensored versions of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales, and how those themes have informed the works of Murdoch, Drabble…

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    Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt: Knitting the Net of Culture

    L. Steveker

    This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt’s oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt’s novels. Steveker explores…

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    Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt: Knitting the Net of Culture

    L. Steveker

    This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt’s oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt’s novels. Steveker explores…

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    Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations: A. S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie

    Timothy Gauthier

    Studying novels by Byatt, McEwan and Rushdie, this book examines the obsession with history in the contemporary British novel and highlights contemporary anxieties and a range of strategies used to…

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    Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations: A. S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie

    Timothy Gauthier,Tim S Gauthier,Timothy Gauthier

    First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Possession: Introduction by Philip Hensher

    A. S. Byatt

    Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Chatto and Windus, London, in 1990. –Title page verso.

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    Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories

    A. S. Byatt

    Byatt is a vivid colourist’ Sunday Times ‘A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas’ Spectator ‘These little stories by one of Britain’s foremost grandes dames of the writing world are a…

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    Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison

    A. S. Byatt,Ignes Sodre

    The bestselling author of Possession pairs her searching intelligence with the insights of psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre in a free-wheeling and exhilarating discussion of one novel each by six women writers–Jane…

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    The Bostonians

    Henry James

    The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of the two most brilliant novels in the language. The…

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    Possession

    A S Byatt

    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…

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    Daniel Deronda

    George Eliot

    In her final novel, George Eliot turned to contemporary English and European life as material for the expression of her own idealism. Daniel Deronda (1876) is a psychologically incisive investigation…

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    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

    In nineteenth-century England, Dorthea Brooke’s wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings.

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    The Arabian Nights

    Presents a enchanting collection of tales, narrated by Shahrazad over the course of a thousand and one nights, including such favorites as Aladdin, The Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman, and…

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    The Winds of Heaven

    Monica Dickens,A. S. Byatt

    A 1955 novel addressing the more awkward aspects of family relationships, ‘The Winds of Heaven’ is about a 60-year-old widow, left with no money and shunted from one to the…

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    Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings

    A. S. Byatt,George Eliot

    Offers a general introduction to George Eliot’s work as an essayist, translator and poet. Divided into four sections, the book includes book reviews, major long essays written for a magazine…

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    The Bell

    Iris Murdoch

    First published in 1958, Iris Murdoch’s funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Encamped outside Imber Abbey…

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    A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction

    Terry Pratchett

    Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, London, in 2012. Subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random…

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    The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore.

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    On The Conjugial Angel

    A S Byatt

    On The Conjugial Angel is drawn from the transcript of a talk and Q&A given at Swedenborg House in 2010.

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    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from…

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    The Mill on the Floss

    George Eliot

    Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence…

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    The Fifth Queen

    Ford Madox Ford

    A trilogy about Henry VIII, his fifth wife Katherine Howard and Thomas Cromwell.

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    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll

    Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters; and, after climbing through a mirror, Alice enters a world similar to a chess board.

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    A Dog’s Heart

    Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

    Having been scalded by boiling water earlier that day, and with little chance to survive the severe winter night, a stray dog is left for dead on the streets. Lamenting…

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    The Annotated Brothers Grimm: Bicentennial Edition

    Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

    This is the book I wanted as a child and didn’t have, the book I’d have liked both to give to my children and to keep for myself, the book…

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    The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

    Sir Richard Francis Burton

    Presents a collection of tales, including Aladdin, The Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. .

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    Morphologies: Short Story Writers on Short Story Writers

    Ali Smith,Toby Litt,Frank Cottrell Boyce,Stuart Evers,A. S. Byatt

    What makes for a good short story? Being short, you might think the storys structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for…

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    The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease

    A. S. Byatt,Ramsey Campbell,Ian Duhig,Hanif Kureishi,Adam Marek

    Fourteen leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud’s famous checklist of what gives…

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