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Babel Tower: First Edition
Byatt, A.S.
0517277743 / 9780517277744
1996 Random House, Good; Good, First Edition
1996 FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First U.S. Edition' stated on copyright page with a $25.95 list price on front dust jacket flap. Minor dust jacket edge wear, light shelf wear - otherwise a beautiful copy! In Babel Tower a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of Virgin in the Garden and Still Life) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Hers is not the only struggle; her friend Jude writes a novel, Babbletower, which is tried for obscenity; her broth in law Daniel becomes involved in new movements for London's poor and distressed. Their crises mirror those of the age-abroad, this is the decade of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the death of J F Kennedy; at home it is the era of the Lady Chatterley case, of the Beatles, of Mods and Rockers, art school riots, the Profumo scandal. Moving and absorbing and full of comedy as well as strife, this superb novel brings our own recent past to vivid, and disturbing life.
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12.00 USD
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Babel Tower: First Edition
Byatt, A.S.
0517277743 / 9780517277744
1996 Random House, Good; Good, First Edition
1996 FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First U.S. Edition' stated on copyright page with a $25.95 list price on front dust jacket flap. Slight attic smell, dust jacket spine slightly faded. Binding tight, pages clean & bright. In Babel Tower a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of Virgin in the Garden and Still Life) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Hers is not the only struggle; her friend Jude writes a novel, Babbletower, which is tried for obscenity; her broth in law Daniel becomes involved in new movements for London's poor and distressed. Their crises mirror those of the age-abroad, this is the decade of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the death of J F Kennedy; at home it is the era of the Lady Chatterley case, of the Beatles, of Mods and Rockers, art school riots, the Profumo scandal. Moving and absorbing and full of comedy as well as strife, this superb novel brings our own recent past to vivid, and disturbing life.
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12.00 USD
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Possession: A Romance
Byatt, A.S.
0679735909 / 9780679735908
1990 Vintage International, Good;
1990 PRINTING. Moderate cover edge wear & corner creasing, light page toning, shelf wear. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.
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3.00 USD
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Possession: A Romance
Byatt, A.S.
0394586239 / 9780394586236
1990 Random House, Good; Good, 3rd Printing
Ink gift note and small smudge on front free endpaper, some pencil marks in text with pencil notes on rear endpaper, dust jacket price clipped. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.
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5.00 USD
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Still Life
Byatt, A.S.
0684835037 / 9780684835037
1991 Collier, Good;
1991 TRADE PAPERBACK. 385 pages. Minor cover edge wear, pages toned, otherwise a beautiful copy! Frederica Potter, doomed to be intelligent'' plunges into Cambridge Universty life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to write a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central Leitmotiv. In this sequel to The Virgin in the Garden, A.S Byatt illuminates the inevitable conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a subtle yet incisive observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s.
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3.00 USD
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Virgin in the Garden
Byatt, A.S.
0679738290 / 9780679738299
1992 Vintage Books, Good;
Minor cover edge wear, ink name on first page, water staining to top page edges causes wrinkle. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.
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3.00 USD
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Virgin in the Garden
Byatt, A.S.
0679738290 / 9780679738299
1992 Vintage Books, Like New;
Minor cover edge wear, otherwise pristine. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.
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3.00 USD
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