Isbn: 9780679405139 - babel tower (30 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents an extraordinary story set against the backdrop of the 1960s--a turbulent decade of clashing politics, passionate ideals, and shifting sexual roles. At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an obscene book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned against her. Fleeing to London with their young son, she gets a teaching job in an art school, where she is thrown into the thick of the new decade. Poets and painters are denying the value of the past, fostering dreams of rebellion, which focus around a strange, charismatic figure--the near-naked, unkempt and smelly Jude Mason, with his flowing gray hair, a hippie before his time. We feel the growing unease, the undertones of sex and cruelty. The tension erupts over his novel Babbletower, set in a past revolutionary era, where a band of people retire to a castle to found an ideal community. In this book, as in the courtrooms, as in the art school's haphazard classes and on the committee set up to study the teaching of language, people function increasingly in groups. Many are obsessed with protecting the young, but the fashionable notion of children as innocent and free slowly comes to seem wishful, and perilous. In Byatt's vision, the presiding genius of the day seems to be a blend of the Marquis de Sade and The Hobbit. Peopled with weird and colorful characters, charted with brilliant, imaginative sympathy, Babel Tower is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre.…

Zustand: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st U.S. ed. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st U.S. ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st U.S. ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st U.S. ed. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. First Edition.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Signed. First Edition.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 13632031. 1776682978. 4/20/2026 11:02:58 AM.

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Zustand: Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear, sunning to spine and some edgewear to DW. . . . .

Zustand: Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear, sunning to spine and some edgewear to DW. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:9780679405139.…

dj. First Edition. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 623 pages. A massive novel from the winner of the Booker Prize for her novel "Possession." A fine and tight copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a fine dust jacket.

Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. New York: Random House [1996]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New in dust jacket. Very fine/very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy. (Smoke-free. No defects.) Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. 0.0.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First US printing. The third of a planned quartet of novels set in the mid-twentieth century - in this massive novel, "in Byatt's vision the presiding genious of the 1960s seems to be a blend of the Marquis de Sade and The Hobbit. The resulting confusion, charted with a brilliant imaginative sympathy, is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre." 623 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. As new looking copy with Brodart cover. (see picture) 623 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDDomestic fiction; Good hardcover with tips bumped, deckled pages, stained edges and pages, dust jacket, first U.S. edition, and prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 623 pages, Condition: As New, due to bump/ crease on back/top of spine, otherwise book is New, Unread, Spine Not Broken, Dust Jacket Condition: As New, due to same bump/crease on back/top of spine, First U.S. Edition, Print # line states24689753 which is a First Printing from Random House, Original $25.95 price Not clipped, #3 in the "Frederica" Series: * 1. The Virgin in the Garden (1978) 2. Still Life (1985) 3. Babel Tower (1996) 4. A Whistling Woman (2002), Novels by A.S. Byatt: * The Game (1967) Possession (1990) The Shadow of the Sun (1991) The Biographer's Tale (2000) The Children's Book (2009). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Tall octavo. 625pp. Remainder mark on topedge, textblock a bit settled at the foredge, near fine in a lightly worn, near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Beautiful, 1st Printing, tight, solid and clean throughout with just a touch of shelf-wear. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. A stunning collectable copy of this classic from the Booker Prize winning author of "Posession".…

Zustand: As New.