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A.S. Byatt


Born
in Sheffield, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
August 24, 1936

Died
November 16, 2023

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences
Iris Murdoch, Henry James, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, ...more


A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt) is internationally known for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize winner Possession, The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, and her highly acclaimed collections of short stories include Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, Elementals and her most recent book Little Black Book of Stories. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

BYATT, Dame Antonia (Susan), (Dame Antonia Duffy), DBE 1999 (CBE 1990); FRSL 1983; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 2003 , writer; born 24 Aug. 1936;

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Average rating: 3.87 · 309,778 ratings · 22,162 reviews · 177 distinct works • Similar authors
Possession
3.90 avg rating — 83,431 ratings — published 1990 — 182 editions
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The Children's Book
3.69 avg rating — 18,879 ratings — published 2009 — 65 editions
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Angels and Insects
3.64 avg rating — 6,075 ratings — published 1992 — 73 editions
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Ragnarok
3.48 avg rating — 6,204 ratings — published 2011 — 60 editions
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The Djinn in the Nightingal...
3.86 avg rating — 4,447 ratings — published 1994 — 34 editions
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The Virgin in the Garden (T...
3.71 avg rating — 3,619 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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The Matisse Stories
3.76 avg rating — 3,198 ratings — published 1994 — 45 editions
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Babel Tower
3.84 avg rating — 2,840 ratings — published 1996 — 20 editions
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Little Black Book of Stories
3.79 avg rating — 2,802 ratings — published 2003 — 29 editions
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Still Life
3.90 avg rating — 2,568 ratings — published 1985 — 44 editions
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“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
tags: passionate-love
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“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
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“My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
tags: introversion, peace, solitude
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May 2021 New School Classic Poll

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, 1957, 239 pages
 
  60 votes, 25.3%

Passing by Nella Larsen, 1929, 122 pages
 
  51 votes, 21.5%

Maurice by E.M. Forster, 1971, 256 pages
 
  39 votes, 16.5%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages
 
  36 votes, 15.2%

Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, 1954, 113 pages
 
  25 votes, 10.5%

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, 1988, 515 pages
 
  15 votes, 6.3%

The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr., 1949, 352 pages
 
  11 votes, 4.6%

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