Quotes from book
Possession
Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction.
“Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.”
Page 149.
Possession (1990)
“And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.”
Page 223; the poet being Robert Browning in Epilogue in his collection of poems Dramatis Personae.
Possession (1990)
“I shall from time to time write a small Clue — so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.”
Page 178.
Possession (1990)
