Angels & Insects: Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt

In these two “astonishing” novellas (The New Yorker), the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession returns to the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion.

In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious individuals – some fictional, others drawn from history – gather to connect with the spirit world. Throughout both, Byatt examines the eccentricities of the Victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry.

REVIEWS

"At once quirky and deep, brimming with generosity, imagination, and intelligence." —The New Yorker

"Victorian and fun ... marvellous and maddening ... a display and a delight" - Nicci Gerrard Observer 

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0679751342
Pages: 352