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Possession

A Romance

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Possession

By: A. S. Byatt
Narrated by: Samuel West
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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.

©1991 A. S. Byatt (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Romance Fiction
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This is not a book that is not able to be put down
It is a book that deserves to be put down and taken up and considered and appreciated
It is exquisitely written beautifully detailed and displays an unerring Voice for each character and each century
It is truly wonderful

The beauty of the prose and the poetry

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This is one. I can pick it up anywhere…. And get absorbed. Beautifully written and produced

Very few audible will I listen to again and again.

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Loved this! Excellent narration and a wonderful tale, part love story, part detective novel, brimming with linguistic exquisitness.



A linguistic delight

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This is a truly marvellous performance of a work of intense depth and beauty - my very favourite 20th-century novel.

Possessed of greatness

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Baffling because I closed it and sought to return within a few chapters. The language and the poetry... annoying. A while later I persevered, still disliked the oratory nature of the prose and found annoying the jumps from so varied points of view. It cannot be 'light listening', one must be immersed. Only then is it magnificent and pulls you under.

Baffling

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