Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series: Possession : Introduction by Philip Hensher (Hardcover)

from shelterdowns

A crime of passion, you might call it, when Roland Michell, a scholar of the great nineteenth century poet Randolph Henry Ash, steals two pages of the poet's writing, the draft of a letter he discovers in a long-neglected book. The letter leads him to a possible intended recipient, the lesser-kno...

from runaway84

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on our neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark... -Possession, Pg. 512 How do I write a review worthy of...

from MyopicBookworm

It is not hard to see why this book was considered one of the best novels of its time. It is densely complex, yet without being inaccessible, and I enjoyed it very much. Possession is subtitled "A Romance", but actually it is two romances, as well as a mystery and (in a quiet, academic sort of a ...

from runaway84

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on our neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark... -Possession, Pg. 512 How do I write a review worthy of...

from curioussquared

Roland Michell is an academic barely scraping by as a researcher, an expert on the poet Randolph Henry Ash. One day, he finds what he believes to be a previously unknown draft of a letter from Ash to an unnamed woman, who he determines from other sources to be the poet Christabel LaMotte. Not cer...