by A.S. Byatt · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099591818
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«Angels and Insects» is the volume of two novellas by A.S. Byatt, published by Vintage in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In Victorian England, the two novellas combine historical facts and fiction. «Morpho Eugenia» is a gothic fable about the earthly paradise and the obsession with Darwinian theories, with parallels between insects and society. «The Conjugal Angel» is a ghost story about the context of Tennyson's poem «In Memoriam».
Vintage edition published on 23 November 1995. The cover includes the note «Now a Major Motion Picture»; the two novellas were originally published in 1992.
Of interest to readers of literary and historical fiction, with a taste for Victorian settings and novels of ideas.
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
