Possession
Man Booker Prize Winner
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4.1 • 91 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review
Winner of England’s Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two contemporary scholars, each studying one of two Victorian poets, reconstruct their subjects' secret extramarital affair through poems, journal entries, letters and modern scholarly analysis of the period. PW called this Booker Prize winner ``an ambitious and wholly satisfying work, a nearly perfect novel.''
Customer Reviews
Not all that easy, but an amazing book
This book rewards those who embrace it and take the twisting and turning journey.
Brilliant
If you love literature, language, and poetry — you will thoroughly enjoy Possessions.
Masterpiece
On my Top 10 list of the greatest books I have read.