605 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2000 by Modern Library.
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 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.
This book can intimidate many because there are extensive quotations of the Victorian poet AR Ash. Ash is not really my cup of tea either, but if you quickly pass over those you find a book that is very well written by an author who knows what she was doing. The love letters between Ash and a (finctional?) lover alone are worth the read reminding me of those between Eloise and Abelard.
