Angels & Insects: Two Novellas
by Byatt, A. S
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece By Rafal Olbinski. Limited First Edition. Full Leather, Gilt. Signed By Author. With Preface By Author Printed Just In This First American Edition.
Synopsis
A.S. Byatt is the author of the novels Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), The Game , and the sequence The Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , and Babel Tower . She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects , and four collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye . Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.
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- Arroyo Seco Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037473
- Title
- Angels & Insects: Two Novellas
- Author
- Byatt, A. S
- Illustrator
- Frontispiece By Rafal Olbinski
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1993
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian Books and Leather-Bound Books; Literature: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century;
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