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Angels & insects : two novellas / A.S. Byatt

By:

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), (, 1936-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Random House , c1992.Edition: 1st U.S. trade edDescription: 337 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780679405122

DDC classification:

FIC BYA

LOC classification:

PR6052.Y2 A83 1992

Contents:

Morpho Eugenia -- The conjugial angel.

Summary: 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 sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner).

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC BYA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		030910

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

Morpho Eugenia -- The conjugial angel.

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 sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner).

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