Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings

by A . S . Byatt (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.28

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  Paperback
  1990

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  A selection of essays reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S.Byatt. It sweeps from great Romanticism and Victorians to modern writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the value of myth. Two major sections trace A.S.Byatt's fascination with the complex links between the symbolic and the real, and her changing views on her own craft of writing. A.S.Byatt's novels include Shadow of the Sun , The Game , The Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , Sugar and other Stories and Possession: a Romance .

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  1991

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  A selection reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the poems of Sylvia Plath. Two sections trace Byatt's fascination with the complex links between the symbolic and the real, and her changing views on language and her own craft of writing. A.S. Byatt's novels include Shadow of the Sun , The Game , The Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , Sugar and Other Stories and Possession: a Romance , winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize and the 1990 Booker Prize.

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  Paperback
  1993

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