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Possession
- A Romance
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
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Possession
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Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Booker Prize 1990
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.
Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
Cover illustration © Aitch.
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- Literary_Heather
- 2022-06-25
Really satisfying, now bookhungover
I actually have the paperback as well and alternated between depending on what I was doing and if the narrator was bothering me. I found him very monotone, which works for Roland, but can make it hard to keep listening.
The story is so rich with detail, impressively diverse content with prose, letters, poetry (of an epic proportion), fables, diaries, and scholarly works the characters refer to. And the STORY is so interesting and keeps you guessing, with a very satisfying ending.
This has been on almost every book list I've taken seriously, so I knew I had to read it and I'm very glad I did.
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- Tracy
- 2019-04-22
Fantastic!
Great book and very well read. Couldn’t turn it off until all was revealed at the end. One of the best books I’ve listened to in the last year.
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- yyzgwm
- 2024-02-03
An astounding achievement
Quite apart from the brilliant writing and captivating story, the narration is the finest I've encountered in literally hundreds of audiobooks.
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- Yzabelle Martineau
- 2024-02-28
Exquisite
Not only is the novel one of the best I’ve “read’ but to listen to it being read by Samuel West is a perfect pleasure. The actor successfully renders all the emotions and accents of the incredible characters. Just exquisite.
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