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Angels & Insects
Angels & Insects: Two Novellas | A. S. Byatt
In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner).
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Angels and Insects | Antonia Susan Byatt
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I remember watching this movie sometime in the 90s and being blown away. So when I saw this novella I scooped it up. It didn‘t disappoint, even though I knew what the “big reveal” would be at the end. So smart. So creepy. The movie is great because it uses color and costume to great effect, dressing the smug Victorians as insects and showing they aren‘t much different than creepy crawlies. So glad I found this.

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Part 2 of #latestbookhaul. I had a Penguin Popular Classics edition of Agnes Grey that is now missing so I thought I deserved a new edition 😌 The Byatt book is so pretty and the synopsis says it's like Possession; Victorian stories about scholarly obsession and Darwinism, Spiritualism, insects, and doomed love. Could not walk away from that. #JuneBookBugs @RealLifeReading

LeahBergen I liked Angels and Insects (it's certainly no Possession, but what is? 😉) 7y
batsy @LeahBergen That's good to know :) Indeed Possession is in a class of its own! 7y
saresmoore 😍 7y
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Angels and Insects | Antonia Susan Byatt
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AS Byatt's books always have such gorgeous covers!
(Haven't read this but I did see the movie.)
#insects #junebookbugs @RealLifeReading

RealLifeReading Cool title! 7y
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