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[image error] Possession A Romance

This is one of my all-time favorite books - I consider it the best book written in the last part of the 20th century. It's a very complicated book about two scholars in England who uncover an illicit romance between two fictional 19th century poets. The book goes back and forth between the two centuries and is filled with poetry and dense with literary allusion. I was part of a discussion of Possession on another web site and we mined amazing stuff out of just the first few chapters. I can't recommend this book highly enough, but you must be willing to put some effort into reading it.