Angels & Insects
Two Novellas
Reeks: Vintage International
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."At
- once
- quirky
- and
- deep,
- brimming
- with
- generosity,
- imagination,
- and
- intelligence."
- —The
- New
- Yorker**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**.**
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