A. S. Byatt

On Histories and Stories

Emmett

Perceptively composed essays of love and childhood-beckoning wonder at stories, their power and their infinite and persisting forms, literary criticism coupled with reflections on the author's own fiction writing. The main topic of interest is literature and its relationship to history - the universe's, our ancestral and individual pasts, the Darwinian vision and its effects on Victorian and modern lit, telling stories and continuing stories as a last humanly stand against death.

On Histories and Stories

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