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Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
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A discovery among a Victorian poet’s papers sends two modern scholars searching for the truth about his relationship with another writer. Roland Michell and Maud Bailey follow traces through letters, poems, journals, and places, while rival academics pursue their own interests in the emerging story. Their investigation gradually brings the private lives of the nineteenth-century poets into conversation with their own guarded present. Part literary detective story and part layered romance, the novel moves between contemporary academic life and richly imagined Victorian voices, exploring desire, interpretation, ambition, and the uneasy ownership of another person’s history.
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