A.S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt is the author of numerous novels, including A Whistling Woman and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1990. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, four previous collections of shorter works, and several works of nonfiction. Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College London. She lives in London
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The Arabian Nights
eBook | pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-41701-5 (0-307-41701-8)
August 19, 2009 | $17.00
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending...
eBook | pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-41701-5 (0-307-41701-8)
August 19, 2009 | $17.00
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending...
Possession
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-950392-7 (0-09-950392-1)
June 1, 2009 | $21.95
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the...
Written by A.S. Byatt
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-950392-7 (0-09-950392-1)
June 1, 2009 | $21.95
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the...
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The Children's Book
Hardcover | 624 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39807-9 (0-307-39807-2)
April 21, 2009 | $36.95
From the renowned author of Possession, The Children’s Book is the absorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that ended with the cataclysmic destruction of World War I. In this compelling novel, A.S. Byatt summons up a whole era, revealing...
Written by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover | 624 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39807-9 (0-307-39807-2)
April 21, 2009 | $36.95
From the renowned author of Possession, The Children’s Book is the absorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that ended with the cataclysmic destruction of World War I. In this compelling novel, A.S. Byatt summons up a whole era, revealing...
Memory
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Books | Science
978-0-09-947013-7 (0-09-947013-6)
February 2, 2009 | $34.95
A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all.
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all. . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason...
Written by A.S. Byatt and Harriet Harvey Wood
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Books | Science
978-0-09-947013-7 (0-09-947013-6)
February 2, 2009 | $34.95
A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all.
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all. . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason...
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Memory
Hardcover | 352 pages | Chatto & Windus | Science
978-0-7011-7737-9 (0-7011-7737-3)
March 11, 2008 | $35.95
An intriguing anthology of essays on the subject of memory — some commissioned from experts on the subject, and others extracts from throughout the ages — from Plato to St. Augustine, Shakespeare to Proust, Freud to Murakami.
Written by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover | 352 pages | Chatto & Windus | Science
978-0-7011-7737-9 (0-7011-7737-3)
March 11, 2008 | $35.95
An intriguing anthology of essays on the subject of memory — some commissioned from experts on the subject, and others extracts from throughout the ages — from Plato to St. Augustine, Shakespeare to Proust, Freud to Murakami.
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The Bostonians
eBook | 496 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43201-8 (0-307-43201-7)
December 18, 2007 | $10.99
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and...
eBook | 496 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43201-8 (0-307-43201-7)
December 18, 2007 | $10.99
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and...
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Vintage Love (Middlemarch + Possession)
Boxed Set | pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-951135-9 (0-09-951135-5)
September 4, 2007 | $21.95
Written by George Eliot and A.S. Byatt
Boxed Set | pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-951135-9 (0-09-951135-5)
September 4, 2007 | $21.95
The Little Black Book of Stories
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-942995-1 (0-09-942995-0)
November 29, 2004 | $17.95
A new collection of Byatt stories is always a winner and never fails to delight. This one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as magical thrills.
The Little Black Book holds its secrets, and they will linger in your mind forever. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged...
Written by A.S. Byatt
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-942995-1 (0-09-942995-0)
November 29, 2004 | $17.95
A new collection of Byatt stories is always a winner and never fails to delight. This one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as magical thrills.
The Little Black Book holds its secrets, and they will linger in your mind forever. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged...
The Arabian Nights
Paperback | 1104 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-8129-7214-6 (0-8129-7214-7)
June 1, 2004 | $11.99
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending...
Paperback | 1104 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-8129-7214-6 (0-8129-7214-7)
June 1, 2004 | $11.99
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending...
The Bostonians
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-6996-2 (0-8129-6996-0)
December 9, 2003 | $13.95
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and...
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-6996-2 (0-8129-6996-0)
December 9, 2003 | $13.95
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and...
The Quartet Boxed Set
Hardcover | 2096 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-945900-2 (0-09-945900-0)
October 23, 2003 | $79.85
Four novels: The Virgin in the Garden; Still Life; Babel Tower; A Whistling Woman.
Written by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover | 2096 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-945900-2 (0-09-945900-0)
October 23, 2003 | $79.85
Four novels: The Virgin in the Garden; Still Life; Babel Tower; A Whistling Woman.
A Whistling Woman
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-944339-1 (0-09-944339-2)
September 29, 2003 | $23.95
New from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession.
This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great “Frederica quartet” depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970.
While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower -- falls almost by...
Written by A.S. Byatt
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-944339-1 (0-09-944339-2)
September 29, 2003 | $23.95
New from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession.
This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great “Frederica quartet” depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970.
While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower -- falls almost by...
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hardcover.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-76138-6 (0-375-76138-1)
December 10, 2002 | $13.95
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books,” writes A. S...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-76138-6 (0-375-76138-1)
December 10, 2002 | $13.95
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books,” writes A. S...
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A Whistling Woman
Hardcover | 448 pages | Chatto & Windus | Fiction
978-0-7011-7380-7 (0-7011-7380-7)
November 26, 2002 | $42.50
New from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession.
This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great “Frederica quartet” depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970.
While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower -- falls almost by...
Written by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover | 448 pages | Chatto & Windus | Fiction
978-0-7011-7380-7 (0-7011-7380-7)
November 26, 2002 | $42.50
New from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession.
This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great “Frederica quartet” depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970.
While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower -- falls almost by...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Portraits in Fiction
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Vintage Books | Art
978-0-09-942984-5 (0-09-942984-5)
November 5, 2002 | $21.95
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...
Written by A.S. Byatt
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Vintage Books | Art
978-0-09-942984-5 (0-09-942984-5)
November 5, 2002 | $21.95
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...
