Imagining Characters

A. S. Byatt

Original title: Imagining characters

earliest edition we have, 1995 Vintage Books, 1997 268 pages

In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The results are nothing less than an education in the ways lit...

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Imagining Characters hardcover · 1999 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517452479
Imagining characters edition · 1997 · Vintage Books · 268 pages
Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers edition · 1997 · Tandem Library · 9781417719488
Imagining Characters edition · 1996 · Vintage · 304 pages · 9780099591214
Imagining characters edition · 1995 · Chatto and Windus · 268 pages

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