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Still Life

Stephanie Potter gives up a promising academic career to marry Daniel Orton, while her sister, Frederica, enters Cambridge, and her brother, Marcus, begins recovering from a nervous breakdown

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780684185774 | Scribner, September 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Stephanie Potter gives up a promising academic career to marry Daniel Orton, while her sister, Frederica, enters Cambridge, and her brother, Marcus, begins recovering from a nervous breakdown

Paperback:

9780684835037 | Scribner, January 1, 1997, cover price $24.99

9780020178552 | Reprint edition (Collier Books, September 1, 1991), cover price $12.00 | also contains Next Steps Five (Patons): Crochet Guidebook | About this edition: Stephanie Potter gives up a promising academic career to marry Daniel Orton, while her sister, Frederica, enters Cambridge, and her brother, Marcus, begins recovering from a nervous breakdown

Sugar and Other Stories

Offers a collection of stories about the struggle to communicate and find love in a complex and ever-ambiguous world, in a volume that includes 'Racine and the Tablecloth,' 'The Changeling,' and 'Sugar'

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780684187860 | Scribner, May 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of stories about the struggle to communicate and find love in a complex and ever-ambiguous world, in a volume that includes 'Racine and the Tablecloth,' 'The Changeling,' and 'Sugar'

Paperback:

9780679742272 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of stories about the struggle to communicate and find love in a complex and ever-ambiguous world, in a volume that includes 'Racine and the Tablecloth,' 'The Changeling,' and 'Sugar'

Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time

By A. S. Byatt

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Paperback:

9780701208578 | Hogarth Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $17.95

The Virgin in the Garden

A new play, the highlight of a magnificent local festival celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II, brings together the young playwright and a brilliant but eccentric family whose personal dramas soon eclipse the entire production

By A. S. Byatt

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Paperback:

9780679738299 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A new play, the highlight of a magnificent local festival celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II, brings together the young playwright and a brilliant but eccentric family whose personal dramas soon eclipse the entire production

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786104185 | Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 1993, cover price $89.95

Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings

From the best-selling author of Possession. (view table of contents)

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780679405115 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, February 1, 1992), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the ideas, images, and attitudes that are the foundation of the author's fiction, such writers as Willa Cather, Sylvia Plath, Georgette Heyer, and Toni Morrison, and the author's fascination with the symbolic and the real

Paperback:

9780679736783 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the ideas, images, and attitudes that are the foundations of the author's fiction, such writers as Willa Cather, Sylvia Plath, Georgette Heyer, and Toni Morrison, and the author's fascination with the symbolic and the real

The Game

The imaginary retreat of two young sisters becomes a dangerous game when they grow older and become vulnerable to the machinations of an evil man determined to control their thoughts. Reprint. NYT.

By A. S. Byatt

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9780679742562 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The imaginary retreat of two young sisters becomes a dangerous game when they grow older and become vulnerable to a man determined to control their thoughts

Angels & Insects: Two Novellas

Presents two novellas--'The Conjugal Angel,' which reveals human preoccupation with God and life after death, and 'Morpho Eugenia,' a gothic fable about Victorian obsessions with Darwinism and sexuality

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780679405122 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Presents two novellas--'The Conjugal Angel,' which reveals human preoccupation with God and life after death, and 'Morpho Eugenia,' a gothic fable about Victorian obsessions with Darwinism and sexuality

Paperback:

9780676503180 | Vintage Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Presents two novellas--'The Conjugal Angel,' which reveals human preoccupation with God and life after death, and 'Morpho Eugenia,' a gothic fable about Victorian obsessions with Darwinism and sexuality

9780679751342, titled "Angels and Insects: Two Novellas" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents two novellas--'The Conjugal Angel,' which reveals human preoccupation with God and life after death, and 'Morpho Eugenia,' a gothic fable about Victorian obsessions with Darwinism and sexuality

The Shadow of the Sun

Product Description: This is the debut novel by the author of the bestselling Possession. Byatt tells the story of troubled, sensitive seventeen-year-old Anna Severell, who struggles to discover and develop her own personality in the shadow of her father, a renowned novelist...read more

By A. S. Byatt

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Paperback:

9780156814164 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 1, 1993), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Anna Severell, seventeen, struggles to escape the shadow of her famous novelist father, Henry Severell, and achieve the same kind of personal success he has enjoyed

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781856958585 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, September 1, 1998), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: This is the debut novel by the author of the bestselling Possession.

Kees Fens: Finding the Place : Selected Essays on English Literature

By W. Bronzwaer, A. S. Byatt (editor) and H. Verdaasdonk

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Paperback:

9789051837339 | Rodopi Bv Editions, February 1, 1994, cover price $48.00

Besessen

Product Description: Book by Byatt, A. S.

By A. S. Byatt

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Paperback:

9783518388761 | Suhrkamp Verlag, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Book by Byatt, A.

Patrick Heron

Product Description: A leading figure in twentieth-century British art, Patrick Heron has played a major role in the development of post-war abstract art. However, much of his work also reflects the influence of the extraordinary light, colour, shapes and textures to be found in the garden and landscape surrounding his house in Cornwall...read more

By A. S. Byatt, Martin Gayford, Patrick Heron, David Sylvester and Tate Gallery (corporate author)

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Hardcover:

9780029051054, titled "Behind the Unit Door: An Introduction to Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry" | Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | also contains Behind the Unit Door: An Introduction to Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry, Patrick Heron

Paperback:

9781854372505 | Tate Gallery Pubn, July 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A leading figure in twentieth-century British art, Patrick Heron has played a major role in the development of post-war abstract art.

Angels & Insects

Product Description: Book by Byatt, A. S.

By A. S. Byatt and Nadia May (narrator)

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786109500 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1996), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: Book by Byatt, A.

Babel Tower: A Novel

While an independent young woman struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of the early 1960s. By the author of Possession. (General Fiction).

By A. S. Byatt

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Paperback:

9780679758815 | Random House Large Print, May 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: While an independent young woman struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of the early 1960s

9780783816845 | Large print edition (G K Hall, May 1, 1996), cover price $27.50

Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment

Designed for gift giving, an illustrated collection of classic fairy tales, rendered in modern prose by such celebrated authors as A. S. Byatt and John Ashbery, explores the battle of good and evil and the endless quest for love. (view table of contents)

By Gilbert Adair (editor), John Ashbery (trans), Ranjit Bolt (trans), A. S. Byatt (trans), Terence Cave (trans), Sophie Herxheimer (illustrator) and Marina Warner (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780374292812 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1996), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: English translations of classic French fairy tales for adults feature magic, love, revenge, politics, and satire

Babel Tower

While Frederica Potter, an independent young woman, struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of the early 1960s. By the author of Possession. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780679405139 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1996, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: While an independent young woman struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of the early 1960s

Paperback:

9780679736806 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1997), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: While an independent young woman struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of the early 1960s

9780679782162 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1997), cover price $504.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780679451679 | Abridged edition (Random House, May 1, 1996), cover price $23.50 | About this edition: While an independent young woman struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of England's early 1960s.

Imagining Characters: Conversations About Women Writers : Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison

The author of the best-selling novel Possession and a psycholanalyst engage in a free-wheeling, penetrating discussion of six novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison. Original. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre and Rebecca Swift (editor)

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Paperback:

9780679777533 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author of the best-selling novel Possession and a psycholanalyst engage in a free-wheeling, penetrating discussion of six novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison.

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents a selection of original fairy tales, including 'The Glass Coffin,' 'Gode's Story,' 'The Eldest Princess,' 'Dragons' Breath,' and the title-length novella. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. NYT.

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780679420088 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of fairy tales for adults.

Paperback:

9780679762225 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents a selection of original fairy tales, including 'The Glass Coffin,' 'Gode's Story,' 'The Eldest Princess,' 'Dragons' Breath,' and the title-length novella.

Th Djinn in the Nightengale's Eye

By A. S. Byatt

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788713170, titled "Th Djinn in the Nightengale's Eye" | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $47.00

The Song of Solomon: Authorized King James Version

Product Description: The only piece of erotic literature in the Bible, this book was regarded by earlier devotees as an allegory of God's love for his people. Taking the form of a poem, the song tells of two lovers praising each other's bodies. The text is introduced by A.S. Byatt.

By A. S. Byatt

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9780862417932 | Canongate Books Ltd, October 1, 1998, cover price $6.70 | About this edition: The only piece of erotic literature in the Bible, this book was regarded by earlier devotees as an allegory of God's love for his people.

Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice

Stories explore the theme of opposites--alienation and passion, life and art--in the tales of a woman who feels the need to flee after witnessing her husband's death and that of a princess from a cold climate who marries a prince from a desert kingdom

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780375502507 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Stories explore the theme of opposites--alienation and passion, life and art--in the tales of a woman who feels the need to flee after witnessing her husband's death and that of a princess from a cold climate who marries a prince from a desert kingdom

Paperback:

9780375705755 | Vintage Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Stories explore the theme of opposites--alienation and passion, life and art--in the tales of a woman who feels the need to flee after witnessing her husband's death and that of a princess from a cold climate who marries a prince from a desert kingdom.

9780786220045 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 1999), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Stories explore the theme of opposites in the tales of a woman who feels the need to flee after witnessing her husband's death and that of a princess from a cold climate who marries a prince from a desert kingdom

9780062771698, titled "Access San Francisco" | 7th edition (Access Pr, December 1, 1996), cover price $19.00

Miscellaneous:

9780307425737 | Vintage Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $12.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781841970523 | Abridged edition (Clipper Audio, September 1, 1999), cover price $26.00

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays

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By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780674004511 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 10, 2001, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780674008335 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 30, 2002, cover price $25.50

Biographer's Tale

A disenchanted postgraduate student sets out to write a biography of a great biographer, only to quickly discover that the fragmentary facts, bits of information, and remnants of a life are difficult to put together to paint a cohesive portrait, a discovery that becomes a metaphor for his own complex life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By A. S. Byatt

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Hardcover:

9780375411144, titled "The Biographer's Tale" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Phineas G.

Paperback:

9780375725081, titled "The Biographer's Tale" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Phineas G.

9780786235230, titled "The Biographer's Tale" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Phineas G.

9780099283935 | Vintage Uk, January 1, 2001, cover price $22.01

Miscellaneous:

9780375413421, titled "The Biographer's Tale" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 15, 2001, cover price $14.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781841972077, titled "The Biographer's Tale" | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, January 1, 2001), cover price $63.00

Bird Hand Book

By A. S. Byatt and Victor Schrager (photographer)

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Hardcover:

9781931241045 | Graphis Inc, November 1, 2001, cover price $60.00

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories

A collection of thirty-seven short stories by English writers covers a wide range of subjects, by such diverse authors as D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Hardy

By A. S. Byatt (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780192142382 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: A collection of thirty-seven short stories by English writers covers a wide range of subjects, by such diverse authors as D.

Paperback:

9780199561605 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 7, 2009), cover price $19.95

9780192803764 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 20, 2003, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A collection of thirty-seven short stories by English writers covers a wide range of subjects, by such diverse authors as D.

9789990055269 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $0.02

9780192881113 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $18.95

Prebinding:

9781435297821 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $33.99

Bp Portrait Award 2003

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By A. S. Byatt

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Paperback:

9781855143395 | Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns, November 1, 2003, cover price $12.95

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