Author - A. (Antonia) S. (Susan) Byatt: Internet Book Database

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The Little Black Book of Stories

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 th...

2003

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays

As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even amon...

2000

The Biographer's Tale

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. Nan...

2000

Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice

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, f...

1998

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

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 a...

1994

Angels and Insects

The author of Possession returns to the territory of her bestselling novel in two breathtaking fictions that explore the social and psychic landscape of Victorian England. Set in a proper country hous...

1992

Passions of the Mind

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...

1990

Possession: A Romance

Actual Book Cover May Vary -- There are two covers available and orders are filled at random.An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale...

1990

Sugar, and Other Stories

A collection of short stories that are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. The author of Possession explores the fragile ties between generations and ...

1987

The Matisse Stories

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession come three intensely observed, beautifully written stories, each inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each revealing the intimate connection betw...

1975

Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch

1970

Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time

1970

The Game

As girls, Julia and Cassandra played a game in which they entered the imaginary landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now, a man the sisters once both loved reenters their lives, drawing them into a game w...

1967

The Shadow of the Sun

This is the debut novel by the author of the bestselling Possession. Byatt tells the story of troubled, sensitive seventeen-year-old Anna Severell, who struggles to discover and develop her own person...

1964

Children's Book

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA 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 year...

Memory

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 ...

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories

From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and...

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A Whistling Woman

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, spiri...

2001

Babel Tower

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, th...

1996

Still Life

From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they...

1985

The Virgin in the Garden

A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging ...

1978