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FICTION

Released: May 1, 1999

by A.S. Byatt

"An often enchanting further display of Byatt's fluent style and far-reaching imagination."

Six rather arbitrarily linked stories (which allegedly explore various "extremes and polarities") from the rococo stylist whose best fiction includes Booker Prize—winning Possession (1990) and the (rather similar) story collection The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1997). Read full book review >

Cover art for THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE'S EYE

FICTION

Released: Nov. 1, 1997

THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE'S EYE: FIVE FAIRY STORIES

by A.S. Byatt

Four short fairy tales with a contemporary edge, and one novella-length tale that brilliantly transforms a story of middle- age angst into a celebration of serendipity and sex. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Sept. 17, 1997

IMAGINING CHARACTERS: SIX CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WOMEN WRITERS: JANE AUSTEN, CHARLOTTE BRONTÂ, GEORGE ELIOT, WILLA CATHER, IRIS MURDOCH, AND TONI MORRISON

by A.S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre

"Byatt and Sodre attempt to bring out the knowledge that resides in art alone."

Two discriminating readers invite us to listen in on seven conversations about six important novels by women. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: May 1, 1996

BABEL TOWER

by A.S. Byatt

"Not Byatt's best."

An ambitious, intelligent work that, while aiming to get Britain's swinging '60s down pat, unfortunately scants the usual fictional elements, putting in their place a mordant and always perceptive historical critique. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: April 1, 1995

THE MATISSE STORIES

by A.S. Byatt

"Byatt at her accessible—if rather brief—best."

Inspired by Matisse paintings, these three splendid stories (two have appeared in the New Yorker) pay homage to the artist as they offer equally memorable verbal portraits of apparently ordinary lives driven by pain and disquiet. Read full book review >

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