A. S. Antonia Susan Byatt Bücher

Der junge Literaturwissenschaftler Roland Michell stößt auf einen unbekannten Liebesbrief des berühmten Dichters Randolph Henry Ash – ein sensationeller Fund und die große Chance für den perspektivlosen Forscher. Mit der Hilfe seiner Kollegin Maud Bailey versucht er, Ashs Geheimnis zu enthüllen. Bei der Jagd nach beweiskräftigen Dokumenten stürzen sich Roland und Maud in eine leidenschaftliche Affäre – und verstricken sich immer tiefer in ein Netz aus ominösen Intrigen und gefährlichen Verwicklungen: Denn sie sind nicht allein auf der Suche nach der geheimnisvollen Adressatin …

The Virgin In The Garden Is The First Novel To Feature Frederica Potter, And The Beginning Of A Triumphant Quartet Of Novels. Set In Yorkshire In 1952 As The Inhabitants Of The Area Set About Celebrating The Accession Of A New Queen, This Is The Tale Of A Brilliant And Eccentric Family Fatefully Divided. The Virgin In The Garden Is A Wonderfully Entertaining Novel, In Which Enlightenment And Sexuality, Elizabethan Drama And Comedy Intersect Richly And Unpredictably.

A.S. Byatt's anthology departs from her normal subject matter. As well as giving the reader a magical thrill the stories also send shivers down the spine. By turns funny, spooky, sparkling, and sad, these tales will linger in your mind forever.

This volume is the sixth in the British Council's "New Writing" series. From some of Britain's most formidable literary talent, it places new names alongside more established ones, and offers contributions ranging from poetry to essays, and from short stories to previews of novels in progress.

The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories celebrates the excellences of the English short story. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter.

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of 'Victorian verse'

A. S. Byatt, 1936 in Yorkshire geboren, besuchte eine Quäker-Schule. Ihr Vater war Anwalt und später Richter. Sie studierte in Cambridge und am Bryn Mawr College und lehrte an der London University sowie am University College in London, wo sie seit 1972 tätig war. 1983 widmete sie sich ganz dem Schreiben. Ihr Debütroman erschien 1964, gefolgt von weiteren Werken, darunter der Booker-Preis-gekrönte Roman Possession (1990). Zu ihren wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen zählen Unruly Times und Passions of the Mind. 1992 erschienen die Novellen Angels and Insects. Byatt war Mitglied mehrerer literarischer Jurys und ist eine angesehene Literaturkritikerin, die für das Times Literary Supplement, die Sunday Times und die BBC schreibt. Sie war Vorsitzende der Society of Authors und Mitglied des Kingman Committee. 1999 wurde sie zur Dame Commander of the British Empire ernannt, erhielt 2002 den Shakespeare-Preis und 2016 den Erasmuspreis. Byatt hat drei Töchter und lebt in London. Melanie Walz, 1953 in Essen geboren, wurde 1999 mit dem Zuger Übersetzer-Stipendium und 2001 mit dem Heinrich-Maria-Ledig-Rowohlt-Preis ausgezeichnet und hat zahlreiche Autoren übersetzt.

A remarkable, sumptuously illustrated exploration of the links between fiction, writers of fiction and portraits -- by the acclaimed Booker Prize winner. 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, as motifs, as images of character and evocations of past time. A.S. Byatt delves into the complex relations between portraits and characters, and between portraits and novels as whole works of art. Her authors range from Henry James to Iris Murdoch, her artists from Holbein to Botticelli, Manet to the present day. She looks at the way writers use portraits to conjure up the past, as in Ford Madox Ford’s The Fifth Queen and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. She explores their erotic use, the idea of painting as a sexual act, full of danger. And she examines the creation of fictional portrait painters by writers like Balzac and Zola, whose writing was closely linked, in different ways, to the art of Cézanne. A feast for the eye and for the imagination, Portraits in Fiction is a remarkable and immensely enjoyable exploration of the marriage of two great genres.

These two novellas are set in the mid-19th-century, weaving together fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise; "The Conjugal Angel" is a philosophical ghost story