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Possession
- A Romance
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Booker Prize 1990
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.
Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
Cover illustration © Aitch.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-2019
Possession
I love this book. I read it 20 years ago and it is still as compelling. A fantastic book
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- charlotte
- 03-08-2019
Obsessive
Had I read this book myself I would not have continued. As I listened, however, I was drawn in and could not put it away until I heard the end.
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- Kindle Customer
- 13-07-2020
My review of Possession.
A haunting novel, beautifully written. easy to see why it won the Booker Prize for 1990.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-11-2019
I found the heavy intellectualism ruined the poetics
I wish it was more poetic and mythical and less intellectual I found it boring and cold nose parts and whisper more emotion in the whole book.
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- Topas
- 02-10-2019
A linguistic delight
Loved this! Excellent narration and a wonderful tale, part love story, part detective novel, brimming with linguistic exquisitness.
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- Aimee-Louise Parker
- 12-08-2019
Fantastic book
Great storyline. funny romantic. My new favorite book, I'm going to reread it again and again.
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- Falluntilyoufly
- 19-04-2019
Great book made greater by superb performance
Halfway through and completely in love. I don't want this to end! Possession is the book in which AS Byatt's writing met its match in her choice of subject, inviting a reader to consider the delicious wordplay in the concept of 'literary novel'. It's the playful, thoughtful and wholly delightful work of a writer at the height of her powers. The language in particular invites you to revel in its fluency across a breathtaking range and depth of style and subject matter; entirely appropriate to the story of the romance between two Victorian writers transformed into a detective story by two latter-day literary scholars. As for Samuel West's performance, if I could give it more than 5 stars, I would. This is pitch-perfect delivery in every possible way: not only the obvious basics of consistent characterisation, attention paid to inflection, etc, but there's a level of nuance in his performance that brings every last glory of Byatt's prose utterly, ravishingly, alive. The first time it's ever crossed my mind to think of audiobooks as their own separate art form... I loved Possession as a book, but if possible I love it even more as Samuel West's performance of it. I'll definitely be looking for more books performed by him.
20 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-03-2019
Spellbinding
A book I have always loved . And this production more than does it justice . The reading was pitch perfect .
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- Suzanne Spooner
- 01-03-2020
Death by poetry - should have been half as long!
I found this book very frustrating. I would have stopped listening if I wasn’t so stubborn. There’s far too much meandering Victorian poetry which didn’t say much & drove me mad - but had the unexpected bonus of being quite handy to get me to sleep when insomnia struck. There were elements of the story that were really good. I suspect that if the book had been much shorter without so many poems & letters then I would have really liked it.
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- Sketching on the run
- 05-10-2019
Stunning
One of the best books I’ve ever read.This book has so many rich layers of narrative .The ending is perfect . Simply stunning.
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- Anon
- 05-08-2019
Brilliant
I read this book when it first came out and thought that it was incredible. Multi- layered, beautifully written and wholly engrossing. I intended to re-read one day but have now listened instead. Enough time has passed for me to have forgotten much of the detail of the story which made it fresh and just as absorbing the second time around. Sam West’s reading is superb. One is never in doubt as to which character is speaking and the intelligence of the reading adds another layer of enjoyment. I can’t recommend this audiobook enough!
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- Jessica, London
- 14-04-2019
Couldn’t get into this very easily
I found this a bit of an effort and felt the story could have been a lot shorter. The basic plot is great, but there is so much in it beside the plot and these other things didn’t really add a lot of value for me personally. I wished that so much time wasn’t spent on things other than the plot.
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- Penthesilea
- 30-09-2019
Samuel West is perfect...
... for narrating/ acting Possession. There are beautiful moments in this book of superlative writing, but I've always felt it goes on a bit. When I read it I skipped pages but I don't skip Samuel West's narration. Recommended.
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- Marvellous Maud
- 02-07-2019
Tedious
I had to give up, despite valiant efforts. This was excruciatingly boring and very difficult to delve into. Me. West read it beautifully but his performance could not compensate for the dreariness of the slow plot. Disappointing in the extreme .
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- T. Greb
- 21-06-2019
Mostly enjoyed it
A good read, but got repressive and long winded at the end. Most of all I loved the side stories, the poems and retold fairy tales, just for these is worth a read.
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- Andrew Wood
- 02-12-2019
Better than I remember
This is a complete treat, wonderful. I have read and re-read the book many times so was delighted to find it as an audiobook. The performance by Samuel West is amazing, he voices the characters brilliantly. It is a compelling story, beautifully told and even better as an audiobook. I cannot recommend it enough.
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