Isbn: 9780679405122 - angels & insects: two novellas (14 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Random House, 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover, Condition: As New, Unread, Tight Binding, Spine not broken, never fully opened past copyright page, Red Ink remainder line on top page edges right up against spine, otherwise New copy, No other marks or stamps, Dust Jacket Condition: As New, only due to some light rubbing to spine edge otherwise New, no cuts, tears or stains, smaller format hardcover, 8.5" x 5.75", 339 pages, bound with deckle edge pages, white flyleafs, front and back, blue boards with gold embossed angel on front board, First U.S. Trade Edition as stated, 1st Printing with Full # print line starting with "2" being a Random House Publication that starts their First Editions/1st Printings with #2, Original $21.00 price Not clipped, Collections: The Matisse Stories (1975) Sugar (1987) Passions of the Mind (1990), - Novels: The Game (1967) Possession (1990) The Shadow of the Sun (1991) The Biographer's Tale (2000) The Children's Book (2009) Angels and Insects (1992) Deadly Sins (1994) (with others) The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994) Elementals (1998) The Little Black Book of Stories (2003) Medusa's Ankles (2021). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 339 pages. Dj wornIn these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explo red in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritu alism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is delicate and confidently ironic. Byatt perf ectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality (San Francisc o Examiner). From the Trade Paperback edition. Editorial Reviews From Publish ers Weekly Revisiting the Victorian ambience of Possession , Byatt treats her la rge audience to more extraordinary literary gamesmanship with two intricate nove llas. In Morpho Eugenia penniless young entomologist William Adamson has just re turned from a 10-year expedition in the Amazon. William is taken in by a titled clergyman with scientific pretensions, and soon marries his benefactor's beautif ul daughter. Unable to undertake another Amazon adventure, he studies domestic a nt colonies and discovers indecent parallels between the insects and his new fam ily. The Conjugial Angel involves a circle of spiritualists, chief among them Al fred Tennyson's sister Emily, in her youth engaged to Arthur Hallam, the man imm ortalized in Tennyson's In Memorium . Emily has been branded faithless for havin g married years after Hallam's death (Elizabeth Barrett called her a disgrace to womanhood), but she is uncompromising in her pursuit of Hallam's ghost. As fans will anticipate, Byatt effortlessly exploits the opportunities for pastiche, be lletristic flourish and critical commentary. If her symbolism is as excessively upholstered and overdetermined as the narratives of her Victorian models, beneat h the padding she sets out a delicate chain of thematic concerns--19th-century t. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. Near fine with owner's gift inscription on the front fly in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. First US Trade Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 339 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected in plastic covering, price uncut: "U.S.A. $21.00". Boards quarter bound in dark blue cloth and lighter blue paper with mild shelfwear to edges. Text block has deckled fore edge. Flat signed by author to title page. Shelved in Room C Overflow. 1406421. Special Collections.…