VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN - Hardcover
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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, 1st Edition Thus. 428 pp. Good clean tight sound, shaken, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Bound in bright gilt lettered red cloth creased to spine, together with original unclipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper featuring the'Phoenix Jewel', dusted to spine and rear, with small closed chip to head of lower joint.
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rgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.
About the Author
A.S. Byatt is the author of the novels Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), The Game, and the sequence The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0701122617
- ISBN 13 9780701122614
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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