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The Children's Book
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.95
Shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.95
Shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she... Read more >
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Possession
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $15.95
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $15.95
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. Read more >
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $8.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $8.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Arabian Nights
Format: Paperback, 1104 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $8.95
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... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 1104 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $8.95
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... Read more >
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The Arabian Nights
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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The Children's Book
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $50.00
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $50.00
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in... Read more >
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Villette
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $11.95
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."
Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $11.95
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."
Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths... Read more >
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Middlemarch
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $11.00
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $11.00
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small... Read more >
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Little Black Book of Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for grownups. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form.
Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $13.95
Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for grownups. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form.
Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Bostonians
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $8.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $8.95
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... Read more >
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The Virgin in the Garden
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $15.95
The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $15.95
The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably. Read more >
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Angels & Insects
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $14.95
In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $14.95
In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary... Read more >
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The Matisse Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $12.00
These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $12.00
These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Game
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $13.00
The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $13.00
The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the... Read more >
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The Biographer's Tale
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for fact.
Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for fact.
Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1998
Price: $13.95
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1998
Price: $13.95
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Babel Tower
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $15.95
At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $15.95
At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying... Read more >
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Imagining Characters
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $14.00
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $14.00
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The... Read more >
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Sugar and Other Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $13.95
A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $13.95
A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion... Read more >
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Passions of the Mind
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $15.00
Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $15.00
Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed... Read more >
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Elementals
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $12.00
From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites--passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice--clash and converge.
A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in love with a desert prince, whose passionate touches scorch... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $12.00
From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites--passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice--clash and converge.
A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in love with a desert prince, whose passionate touches scorch... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Whistling Woman
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times.
Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times.
Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Vintage Byatt
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $9.95
Fabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays allow us to see both our own and other worlds and times and, perhaps... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $9.95
Fabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays allow us to see both our own and other worlds and times and, perhaps... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Children's Book
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.95
Shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she... Read more >
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.95
Shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she... Read more >
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The Arabian Nights
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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