Possession

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Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, *Possession* is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. 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.

subjects: Fiction,  Manuscripts,  Collectors and collecting,  Poets,  Literary historians,  Man-woman relationships,  Fiction in Italian,  English Poets,  Historical fiction,  English literature,  American literature,  History and criticism,  Fiction, psychological,  England, fiction,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Authors, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Historical,  FICTION / General,  Chang pian xiao shuo,  Biographers,  Fiction, biographical,  Polish language materials,  Manuscripts--collectors and collecting,  Manuscripts--collectors and collecting--england--fiction,  Man-woman relationships--england--fiction,  Poets, english,  Poets, english--fiction,  Pr6052.y2 p6 1991,  823/.914

Places: England,  France,  Brittany,  Yorkshire,  Boggle Hole,  ying guo

Times: middle to late 19th century,  late 20th century,  19th century,  xian dai