A.S. Byatt is 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.
20 电子书 A S Byatt
A S Byatt: End of Gods
The story of Ragnarok plays out the endgame of Norse mythology. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the god themselves. What more relevant myth could any modern writ …
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A S Byatt: Children’s Book
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world – but their …
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A S Byatt: Possession
‘Shimmers with something close to genius… it is a modern masterpiece’ Daily Mail Rediscover the classic Booker Prize-winning novel of romance, history, intrigue, and high drama.Possession is an exh …
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A S Byatt: Little Black Book of Stories
A new collection of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as delights. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged w …
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A S Byatt: Stone Woman (Storycuts)
Following the death of her mother, an elderly woman begins to undergo a transfiguration. Her body grows flinty, toughens and crystallises. An Icelandic stonemason she meets in a graveyard becomes her …
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A S Byatt: Body Art (Storycuts)
Damien, a gynaecological consultant and lapsed Catholic, replaces Christian icons with modern art; he worships the absence of God in the abstract staining of paint and ink. But when a vagrant young a …
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A S Byatt: Raw Material (Storycuts)
A downtrodden creative writing teacher despairs at the efforts of his students, at turns nakedly autobiographical or fanciful beyond reason. When an elderly lady begins submitting work in accordance …
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A S Byatt: Pink Ribbon (Storycuts)
It has been five years since Madeleine has recognised her husband James. As she drops deeper into her dementia, their lives fill up with the ghosts of her past and of Blitz-era London. When late one …
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A S Byatt: Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)
Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise t …
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A S Byatt: Unruly Times
Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a nove …
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A S Byatt & Harriet Harvey Wood: Memory
This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book inclu …
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A S Byatt: Matisse Stories
Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling — about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may …
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A S Byatt: Djinn In The Nightingale’s Eye
**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**A S Byatt’s fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for t …
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A S Byatt: Elementals
In the same delectable format as The Matisse Stories, this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion – the mysterious absences at the heart of the fulles …
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A S Byatt: On Histories and Stories
In her powerful opening essays – ‘Fathers’, ‘Forefathers’ and ‘Ancestors’ – A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; t …
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A S Byatt: Passions Of The Mind
In Passions of the Mind, A.S. Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language underpinning some of her ow …
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A S Byatt: Portraits In Fiction
Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, …
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A S Byatt: Sugar And Other Stories
It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Possession are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. A S Byatt’s short fi …
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A S Byatt: Degrees of Freedom
First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt’s Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch’s interest in t …
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A S Byatt: Peacock and Vine
This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrill …
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