Angels Insects, A. S. Byatt
Angels Insects, A. S. Byatt
List: $20.95 | Sale: $14.66
Club: $10.47

Angels & Insects

Author: A. S. Byatt

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/23/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A.S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion.In Morpho Eugenia, a shipwrecked naturalist is rescued by a family whose clandestine passions come to seem as inscrutable as the behavior of insects. In The Conjugial Angel, a circle of fictional mediums finds itself haunted by the ghost of a very real historical personage.Angels & Insects offers further proof of Byatts prodigious powers and magical sympathy for characters who might be our greatgreatgrandparents.

About A. S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her books include the Booker Prize–winning Possession, as well as The Children’s Book and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman. She was appointed Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She lives in London, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on May 23, 2013

Angels and Insects is comprised of two novellas. Morpho Eugenia is the first of such and within it, the hero states, "You may argue anything at all by analogy, Sir, and so consequently nothing." This deft piece had me cheering for Matty Crompton, a real badass, and pondering these lengthy exploratio......more

Goodreads review by Julio on December 01, 2023

Podéis escuchar una revisión a esta reseña en el programa dedicado a A.S. Byatt y su obra Ángeles e Insectos: literatura de genero victoriana escrita por mujeres: [URL not allowed] Recientemente tuvimos que decir adiós a A.S. Byatt, una autora británica muy bien reconocida en su mom......more

Goodreads review by Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) on July 24, 2014

A.S. Byatt, with Angels & Insects, has created a rich and complex book comprised of two medium-length novellas set in the mid-1860s and 1870s, both of which address themes important to the people of the Victorian Era. The first novella, Morpho Eugenia focuses on the relationships between a family, i......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List