Angels and Insects

A. S. Byatt

ISBN 10: 0701137177 / ISBN 13: 9780701137175

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1992

About this Item

Very good, red boards, price clip obscured ( photo ), embossed gold gilt spine, black boards & grey end papers, bubble wrapped, mylar pro: 5* seller. In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic. Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Angels and Insects
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701137177
• ISBN 13: 9780701137175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Book by A.S. Byatt

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In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in "Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality" ("San Francisco Examiner).