"Literary critics make natural detectives", says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph Ash, a literary great long a...
"Literary critics make natural detectives", says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph Ash, a literary great long assumed to be a devoted and faithful husband, and Christabel La Motte, a lesser- known "fairy poetess" and chaste spinster. At first, Roland and Maud's discovery threatens only to alter the direction of their research, but as they unearth the truth about the long- forgotten romance, their involvement becomes increasingly urgent and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journey that pulls each of them from solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic assumptions they hold about themselves, and uncovers their unique entitlement to the secret of Ash and La Motte's passion.
Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. A.S. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear throughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female, of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. --Lisa Whipple
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安东尼娅·苏珊·拜厄特 作者
当归莳子
南海出版公司2008版
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南海出版公司2012版
铁锈
南海出版公司2008版
4 有用 le frisson™ 2008-11-27 17:52:47
別理會中譯本的種種炒作。這樣精雅的英文，應該讀原作。
0 有用 小黄兔 2017-07-22 19:20:08
Byatt小說真讓我受不了。我很努力去讀她的作品，但實在五行不合，沒有讀小說的愉快，感覺在讀教科書般難熬和分神。I have tried but I gave up啦。
0 有用 苗儿 2010-10-10 23:10:44
我爱死了这本书。
0 有用 奔跑的鸵鸟小姐 2008-11-13 14:50:44
没找到我看的版本。。不过我看的也是暗红的封面。。。。
0 有用 板牙兔君 2011-12-15 14:54:58
读到三分之二处就读不动了，累死我了