A.S. Byatt

Prawdziwa uczta intelektualna! Roland Mitchell, niedoceniany i ledwo wiążący koniec z końcem literaturoznawca zajmuje się naukowo twórczością XIX-wiecznego poety, Randolpha Asha. Między stronicami jednego z zakurzonych i pożółkłych woluminów, należących niegdyś do autora, badacz znajduje rękopisy listów miłosnych, których adresatką bynajmniej nie...

The End of the GodsRagnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its...

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 wood: two middle-aged women,...

From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a deeply affecting story of a singular family.When children's book author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful bacchanals Olive...

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 most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Time magazine calls her a novelist of...

From the renowned author of Possession, The Childrens 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 that beneath its golden surface lay...