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Medusa’s Ankles
Selected Stories from the Booker Prize WinnerByatt 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 delightful surprise, packing a much greater punch than many full-length novels...
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Ragnarok
As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, Byatt's mesmerising tale - inspired by the myth of Ragnarok -is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
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Possession
A RomancePossession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. 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.WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
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North Woods
🍃 A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. 🍃 'North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal' Maggie O'FarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,'This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason's genius' Washington PostA SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND'Dazzling . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat . . . Brave and original . . . intimate and epic, playful and serious' GuardianIS HOME TO RUNAWAYS AND VISIONARIES, INSEPARABLE TWINS, A LOVELORN PAINTER, A DESPERATE MOTHER AND A RUTHLESS CON-MAN.'It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale' Sunday TimesIT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD.'North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers' The Times
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Possession
A RomanceThe perfect gift for Valentine’s DayPossession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. 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.
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Babil Kulesi;
Bahcedeki Bakire ve Natürmortun ardindan, Frederica Potterin yolculugu Babil Kulesiyle devam ediyor. Savas sonrasi degisimin, özgürlük arayislarinin, yeni fikirlerin ve eski degerlerin carpistigi bu dönemde yikilan evliliginin ardindan anneligin ve bagimsizlik isteginin arasinda sendeleyen Frederica, kendisini Geveleme kulesi adli tuhaf bir romanla birlikte ahlaki sorgulamalarin ortasinda bulur.Cagdas Ingiliz edebiyatinin en büyük isimlerinden A. S. Byatt, dilin, inancin, arzu ve özgürlügün sinirlarini sorgularken 1960lar Ingilteresinin kültürel ve ahlaki atmosferini derinlemesine resmediyor; hem toplumsal hem de bireysel düzeyde kadinlik, sanat ve dil üzerine güclü bir anlati yaratiyor.
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Margaret Drabble
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dame Margaret Drabble Holroyd, DBE, known as Margaret Drabble, is an English novelist, biographer and critic. Drabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, as the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie, née Bloor. Her elder sister is the novelist and critic A. S. Byatt and their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon. After attending the Quaker boarding-school Mount School at York, where her mother was employed, Drabble received a major scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge where she read English and was awarded a starred first. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Redgrave, before leaving to pursue a career in literary studies and writing
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A. S. Byatt
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her among their list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Byatt was born as Antonia Susan Drabble, the daughter of John Drabble, QC, and the Kathleen Bloor, a scholar of Browning. Byatt was educated at Sheffield High School and the Quaker Mount School, and noted in an interview in 2009 "I am not a Quaker, of course, because I'm anti-Christian and the Quakers are a form of Christianity but their religion is wonderful - you simply sat in silence and listened to the nature of things." She went on to Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr in the United States, and Somerville College, Oxford. Sister to novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, Byatt lectured in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of London University, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and from 1972 to 1983 at University College London
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Angels
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Angels & Insects is a 1995 romance and drama film directed by Philip Haas. It was written by Philip and Belinda Haas with A. S. Byatt after her novella Morpho Eugenia.
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Ys
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Cold
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
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Modern Library 100 Best Novels
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library. In the spring of 1998 the Modern Library polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century. The board consisted of Daniel J. Boorstin, A. S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., William Styron and Gore Vidal.
€ 156,00