А. С. Байетт — библиография

When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Michell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is determined to uncover the truth.
Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, Possession defies categorization. Rich in symmetry and symbolism, brimming over with myth, poetry and fairy tale, Byatt's masterpiece is part literary detective story, part academic satire and part historical novel. At its heart, however, is a compelling romance that draws the reader into the mirrored worlds of two couples, past and present, and explores the nature of obsession, possession and love.

Die Familie Wellwood (Olive, Humphrey, Olives Schwester Violet und viele Kinder) sind Fabianer, die in einer Welt von Künstlern, Schriftstellern und Handwerkern leben, die alle neue Wege finden, Kunst auszudrücken, und ein kunstvolles Leben führen, bevor Schrecken und Verluste auf sie zukommen des Ersten Weltkriegs. Während die Hauptfigur von Olive eine Autorin von Kinderliteratur ist, die ihre große Familie mit ihrem Schreiben unterstützt, bezieht sich der Titel des Buches auf die Kinder im Buch: Tom, Julian, Philip, Elsie, Dorothy, Hedda, Griselda, Florence, Charles/Karl, Phyllis und andere folgen jedem, während sie sich dem Erwachsenwerden und den Schrecken des Krieges nähern.

Фредерика Поттер начинает учиться в Кембридже, неистово жадная до знаний, до самостоятельной, взрослой жизни, до любви, — ровно в тот момент истории, когда традиционно изолированная Британия получает массированную прививку европейской культуры и начинает необратимо меняться. Пока ее старшая сестра Стефани жертвует учебой и научной карьерой ради семьи, а младший брат Маркус оправляется от нервного срыва, Фредерика, в противовес Моне и Малларме, настаивавшим на «счастье постепенного угадывания предмета», предпочитает называть вещи своими именами. И ни Фредерика, ни Стефани, ни Маркус не догадываются, какая в будущем их всех ждет трагедия

Babel Tower follows The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life in tracing Frederica Potter, a lover of books who reflects the author's life and times. It centers around two lawsuits: in one, Frederica -- a young intellectual who has married outside her social set -- is challenging her wealthy and violent husband for custody of their child; in the other, an unkempt but charismatic rebel is charged with having written an obscene book, a novel-within-a-novel about a small band of revolutionaries who attempt to set up an ideal community. And in the background, rebellion gains a major toehold in the London of the Sixties, and society will never be the same.

«Дева в саду» — это первый роман из «тетралогии о Фредерике», над которой Байетт работала почти четверть века. Это масштабное полотно, рассказывающее о британской истории середины XX века: на престол вступает юная королева и в стране начинается новая «елизаветинская эра». На протяжении четырех романов читатели будут следить за судьбой Фредерики Поттер — молодой интеллектуалки, получающей образование в Кембридже в те времена, когда в университетах женщин было значительно меньше, чем мужчин. По мнению многих критиков, «Квартет Фредерики» автобиографичен, ведь судьбы главной героини и самой Антонии Байетт во многом похожи.

The only piece of erotic literature in the Bible, this book was regarded by earlier devotees as an allegory of God's love for his people. Taking the form of a poem, the song tells of two lovers praising each other's bodies. The text is introduced by A.S. Byatt

It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver Canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her future. As autumn begins and Anna enters university, the pair grow closer. A single mistake, however, could put her newfound independence at risk…

First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt's Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch's interest in the relations between art and goodness, master and slave, and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense. Drawing on Iris Murdoch's own critical and philosphical writing, A.S. Byatt discussed her interest in the thought of Sartre, Plato, Freud and Simone Weil, and related this to

Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them both.
Years later Simon re-enters their lives via a television programme on snakes and intrudes into their uneasy compromise of mutual antagonism and distrust. The old, wild emotions surge back, demanding and urgent, and this time the game is played out to a fatal finish.