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The Virgin in the Garden
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The Virgin in the Garden Paperback - 1992

by Byatt, A.S

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The tumultuous events in this tale of a brilliant, eccentric and fatefully divided family begin with the staging of a play about Elizabeth I and come to a shattering climax sure to keep Byatt fans spellbound.

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Vintage. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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  • Title The Virgin in the Garden
  • Author Byatt, A.S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-01-15
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q04C-02381
  • ISBN 9780679738299 / 0679738290
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.23 x 0.97 in (20.35 x 13.28 x 2.46 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91050495
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

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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The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.

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About the author

A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children's Book, The Biographer's Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her "inspiring contribution to 'life writing, '" she died in 2023.