An edition of Angels & insects: two novellas (1992)

Angels & insects

two novellas

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An edition of Angels & insects: two novellas (1992)

Angels & insects

two novellas

1st U.S. trade ed.

by

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These two fascinating novellas, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society - the capture and taming of nature, whether it be a young woman in a country house or a rare butterfly, gleaming in the forests of the Amazon. "The Conjugial Angel" concerns Tennyson's In Memoriam, published in 1850, mourning the death seventeen years before of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily. A philosophical ghost story, bizarre, comic, and moving, in which fictive mediums meet "real" characters, it explores the contemporary preoccupation with God and life after death. Resonant, magical, entirely original, this is A. S. Byatt at her best.

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Random House
Language
English
Pages
339

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Subjects

Evolution (Biology), Fiction, In memoriam (Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron), Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, English fiction
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Angels & Insects
April 1996, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
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Angels & Insects: Movie Tie-in Edition
January 24, 1996, Vintage Books
Paperback in English
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Angels & insects: two novellas
1994, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.
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Angels & insects
1993, Vintage Books
in English
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Angels and Insects : Two Novellas
1993, Random House of Canada, Limited
in English
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Angels & insects: two novellas
1993, Franklin Library
in English - Signed 1st ed.
Cover of: Angels and Insects
Angels and Insects : Two Novellas
1993, Random House of Canada, Limited
Paperback in English
Cover of: Angels and insects
Angels and insects
1992, Chatto & Windus
in English
Cover of: Angels & insects
Angels & insects: two novellas
1992, Random House
in English - 1st U.S. trade ed.

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Table of Contents

Morpho Eugenia
The conjugial angel.

Edition Notes

"This work was originally published in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus Ltd, London, in 1992"--T.p. verso.

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New York
Other Titles
Angels and insects.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.Y2 A83 1992, PR6052.Y2A83 1992, PR6052.Y2 A83 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
339 p. ;
Number of pages
339

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1746139M
ISBN 10
0679405127
LCCN
92056806
OCLC/WorldCat
27066248
LibraryThing
2335
Goodreads
919716

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL115644W

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