Possession: A Romance

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Possession: A Romance is a Booker Prize–winning novel by A. S. Byatt that intertwines a contemporary literary mystery with the hidden love affair of two Victorian poets.

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instanceOf novel
postmodern novel
romantic novel
author A. S. Byatt
awarded Booker Prize
awardYear 1990
centralTheme authorship
feminism
literary scholarship
love
obsession
possession
textual interpretation
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
fictionalPoetCharacter Christabel LaMotte
Randolph Henry Ash
filmAdaptationDirector Neil LaBute
filmAdaptationLeadActor Aaron Eckhart
Gwyneth Paltrow
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre campus novel
historical fiction
literary fiction
metafiction
mystery fiction
romance fiction
hasAdaptation Possession (2002 film)
hasSubtitle A Romance
literaryMovement postmodernism
mainCharacter Maud Bailey NERFINISHED
Roland Michell
narrativeForm dual timeline narrative
notableFor exploration of academic rivalry
interweaving contemporary and Victorian narratives
pastiches of Victorian poetry
originalLanguage English
pageCount approximately 555
publicationYear 1990
publisher Chatto & Windus
setting Brittany
England
London, England
surface form: London

Victorian era
Yorkshire
late 20th century
structureFeature embedded poems
letters and diary entries
multiple narrative voices

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Possession (2002 film) basedOn Possession: A Romance
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The Biographer’s Tale relatedWorkBySameAuthor Possession: A Romance
this entity surface form: Possession
Gwyneth Paltrow as Maud Bailey basedOnWork Possession: A Romance
Jennifer Ehle as Christabel LaMotte adaptationOf Possession: A Romance
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Roland Michell appearsIn Possession: A Romance
Roland Michell fictionalUniverse Possession: A Romance
this entity surface form: Possession
Roland Michell connectedWork Possession: A Romance
Randolph Henry Ash fictionalUniverse Possession: A Romance
this entity surface form: Possession
Randolph Henry Ash appearsIn Possession: A Romance
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Christabel LaMotte appearsIn Possession: A Romance
Christabel LaMotte firstAppearance Possession: A Romance
this entity surface form: Possession: A Romance (1990 novel)