Randolph Henry Ash est un poète maudit de l’époque victorienne. Il déchaîne des rivalités entre universitaires. Le jeune chercheur Roland Mitchell découvre deux lettres qu'il a adressées à une inconnue. Pour résoudre le mystère, il se lance dans une enquête. Mais Maud Bailey, enseignante dans une autre université, fait de même.

Possession

La destinée du jeune chercheur Roland Michell paraît étrangement liée à celle du poète victorien Randolph Henry Ash, dont il est l'un des plus grands spécialistes. Le jour où, d'un livre poussiéreux, il exhume deux lettres d'amour de l'illustre écrivain adressées à une inconnue, le cours de ses travaux - et de sa vie - est bouleversé : documents volés, amours clandestines, suicide romantique peuplent l'aventure qui dépasse bientôt le simple cadre universitaire. Couronné en 1990 par le prestigieux Booker Prize, adapté en 2002 au cinéma par Neil LaBute avec Gwyneth Paltrow et Aaron Eckhart, Possession est un récit captivant, subtil mélange d'érudition, de romance et de suspense, qui a été traduit dans de nombreux pays et a rencontré un succès mondial.

From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story collection that transports the reader to a world where oppositespassion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and iceclash and converge.A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in love with a desert prince, whose passionate touches scorch her delicate skin. A woman flees the scene of her husband's heart attack, leaving her entire past behind her. Striving to master color and line, a painter discovers the resolution to his artisitc problems when a beautiful and magical water snake appears in his pool. And a wealthy Englishwoman gradually loses her identity while wandering through a shopping mall. Elegantly crafter and suffused with boundless wisdom, these bewitching tales are a testament to a writer at the hieght of her powers.

Histoires de feu et de glace

In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A. S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion.

Des anges et des insectes

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.Man Booker Prize Winner (1990)

Nature morte

Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Intensely autobigraphical and linguistically stunning, this book is a landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's truly great writers. Intensely timely it is a book about how stories can give us the courage to face our own demise. The Ragnarok myth, otherwise known as the Twilight of the Gods, plays out the endgame of Norse mythology. It is the myth in which the gods Odin, Freya and Thor die, the sun and moon are swallowed by the wolf Fenrir, the serpent Midgard eats his own tail as he crushes the world and the seas boil with poison. It is only after such monstrous death and destruction that the world can begin anew. This epic struggle provided the fitting climax to Wagner's Ring Cycle and just as Wagner was inspired by Norse myth so Byatt has taken this remarkable finale and used it as the underpinning of this highly personal and politically charged retelling

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