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The Virgin In The Garden A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully di... »
Daniel Deronda This novel uses the hero, Deronda, to come to terms with the English Jews, a society-within-a-society. The book's heroine, Gwendolen Harleth, marries for pow... »
The Matisse Stories These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpectedproximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatts narratives is in some wayinspired ... »
Klein zwart verhalenboek Blaadjes ritselen in een donker woud. Twee vrouwen van middelbare leeftijd keren terug naar het bos waar ze in hun jeugd speelden, eindelijk bereid om de con... »
Obsessie Twee jonge academici komen op het spoor van een geheime liefde tussen de Victoriaanse dichters Christabel LaMotte en Rudolph Henry Ash. Hun onderzoek via ged... »
Still Life In this sequel to The Virgin in the Garden, Byatt illuminates the conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providin... »