Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings

by A.S. Byatt

Book Overview

The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and a novelist of "dazzling inventiveness" (Time) delivers a stunning collection of essays on literature and life.

Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679736786
• ISBN13: 9780679736783
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"