 | Vintage Byatt by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.08 A perfect intro to Byatt's work. Contains bits of "Possession," numerous short stories from all four collections, + a bunch of critical essays. An excellent way to start.
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 | The Shadow of the Sun by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 1964. Byatt's first novel. A perfect debut, "The Shadow of the Sun" was written whilst Byatt was still an undergraduate student at Cambridge.
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 | The Game: A Novel by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 1967. This one is actually much better than people claim it is. Filled with humor and wry observations. The prose is crisp and sharp, almost elemental.
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 | The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.01 1978. The first book in Byatt's tetralogy, "The Virgin in the Garden" introduces us to the Potter family. Watch out for the colors red, white, and green, signifying blood, stone, and grass.
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 | Still Life by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 1985. The second installment in Byatt's "Frederica Quartet," this novel is my favorite out of the four. The symbolic colors in this one are purple and yellow (think Van Gogh).
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 | Sugar and Other Stories by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $0.01 1987. Byatt's first short-story collection, incredibly lyrical and intellectual. "The July Ghost" is my all-time favorite.
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 1990. Her best-known work. A stylish romantic mystery, powerful and beautifully written. This should be on EVERYONE'S bookshelf.
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 | Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.01 1991. Byatt's best collection of critical essays. The 25-page analysis of some of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings is superb.
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 | Angels & Insects: Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $0.01 1992. A rapturously beautiful collection of two strange stories, mystifying and lyrical. "The Conjugial Angel" is an extraordinary account of the life of Alfred Tennyson's sister, Emily. Astonishing.
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 | Angels & Insects
Buy used from: $5.98 1995. Philip Haas's amazing film adaptation of the novella "Morpho Eugenia." The costumes are way over the top, but that's how Byatt herself wanted it. A MODERN work about the Victorian period.
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 | The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $0.01 1993. "Three stories from Byatt, in each of which a woman's life is touched in some way by the paintings of Henri Matisse."
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 | The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.94 1994. A. S. Byatt's very own fairy tales, two of which come straight from "Possession." Buy it for the title novella alone.
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 | Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 1995. I thought this was astonishing. A lot of what she said about George Eliot and Jane Austen has actually helped me at school.
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 | Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.55 1996. The third book of the tetralogy is also Byatt's longest and most experimental novel so far. Some people consider this her best work. Watch out for the colors black and red (blood & destruction).
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 | Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 1998. An excellent collection of short fiction. Although not as good as "Sugar," some of these stories are really, really, REALLY witty.
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 | The Biographer's Tale: A Novel by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 2000. This is what Byatt has to say about the art of biography. Ultimately, the truth will remain unknown. Our lives consist of fragments made up of other people's thoughts and feelings. Ironic, too.
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 | On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature) by A. S. Byatt
Buy used from: $2.41 2000. A slim volume of Byatt's critical essays and lectures. The critical analysis of her own work, "Angels & Insects," is superb. You'll understand a lot more about both novellas after reading this.
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 | A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt
Buy used from: $0.01 2002. The final installment in Byatt's "Frederica Quartet," this book is BURSTING with ideas. Wittgenstein, the Fibonnacci sequence, "The Winter's Tale," + a bunch of other crap. Enjoy.
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 | Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt
Buy used from: $0.74 2004. A. S. Byatt's latest and most brilliant collection of short fiction. Very stylish and unconventional. "The Pink Ribbon" alone is worth the price of the book.
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 | A. S. Byatt (English Authors Series) by Kelly
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $2.78 1996. A very good critical analysis of ALL Byatt's works before 1995. The essay on "The Matisse Stories" is amazing. (I never knew he considered black a color of light).
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 | A.S. Byatt (Writers & Their Work) by Richard Todd
Buy used from: $8.65 1997. A good post-structuralist deconstruction of Byatt's best-known works. Includes a biography and a bibliography.
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 | A. S. Byatt: Art, Authorship, Creativity by Christien Franken
Buy new: $105.00 / Used from: $53.99 2001. An excellent overview of most of Byatt's novels and short-stories. Pretty expensive for so slim a volume, so make sure to order it used.
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 | Essays on the Fiction of A. S. Byatt: Imagining the Real
Buy new: $115.00 / Used from: $122.61 2001. Overall, the best collection of deconstructive criticism of ALL Byatt's works. The essay on "Babel Tower" is the most memorable.
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 | A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by Catherine Burgass
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $11.32 2002. A full-length study and deconstruction of "Possession," this is an excellent supplement to the novel. Exceedingly precise and informative.
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 | Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and Mythology by Gillian Alban
Buy new: $65.70 / Used from: $69.95 2003. Sadly OOP, this remarkable study focuses entirely on the story of Melusine, the winged serpent and mother. Read this in my Women's Studies class.
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