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Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover 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. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a…
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30 editions · 7 languages- Paperback · English · 2009Possession (Vintage Classics)Vintage Classics · 528 pages · 9780099503927
- Paperback · English · 2002Possession. Film Tie-in.Random House Inc. · 9781400033331
- Hardcover · English · 2002Modern Library · 640 pages · 9780679642381
- Audiobook · English · 2000Recorded Books · 9780788731044
- Hardcover · English · 1993Random House Value Publishing · 9780517097922
- Other · English · 2013Everyman · 568 pages · 9781841593555
FictionManuscriptsCollectors and collectingPoetsLiterary historiansMan-woman relationshipsFiction in ItalianEnglish Poets