Tag: academic-mystery-novels

Have you read A.S. Byatt’s Possession? It’s a brilliant book, although I find the most highly praised portions–the author’s careful recreation of Victorian poetry in two voices–far less engaging than the academic caper and intrigue. It’s extraordinary that Byatt can create poetry, in quasi-Browning/Tennyson and Rossetti/Barrett Browning styles, so effectively. But there is already more…