Buy this book on-line BYATT**, A. S: : ANGELS AND INSECTSLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1992. ISBN 0701137177.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by Norman Adams (R.A.,1991),illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top edge coloured red,fore-edge very lightly aged/toned; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Publisher's bright,clean, unblemished,original plainred cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-292pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,two novellas: 'MorphoEugenia' and 'The Conjugal Angel',10 b/w line illus by Brian Hargreaves,2 b/w engravings by John Martin,2 b/w drawings by Edward Burne-Jones,and a b/w drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
See also my book ID rja1174224 [Ragnarok: The End of the Gods.],a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
These two fascinating novellas,like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize winning novel 'Possession', are set in the mid-nineteenth century,weaving fact and fiction,reality and romance.
'Morpho Eugenia' is a lively Gothic fable
of the Earthly Paradise,of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society - the capture and taming of nature,whether it be a young woman in a country house or a rare butterfly,gleaming in the forests of the Amazon.
'The Conjugal Angel' concerns Tennyson's In Memoriam,published in 1850,mourning the death seventeen years before of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam,who was engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily.A philosophical ghost-story, bizarre,comic and moving,in which fictive mediums meet 'real' characters,it explores the contemporary preoccupation with God and life and life after death.Resonant,magical,entirely original,this is A.S. Byatt at her best.
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