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Description edit
From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for fact. Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Phinea G. Nanson: Add a description of this character.
- Erik
- Galton
- Christophe
- Vera Alphage
- Elmer Bole
- Scholes Destry-scholes
- Ormerod Goode
- Karl Pearson
- Henriksen
- Linnaeus
- Phineas G. Nanson
- Fulla
- Puna Biefeld
- Ibsen
- Maurice Bossey
- Lapp
- Lake Ngami
- Darwin
- Nangoro
- Betty Middleton
First Sentence edit
I made my decision, abruptly, in the middle of one of Gareth Butcher's famous theoretical seminars.
Authors & Contributors edit
- A. S. Byatt (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: Add the page count.
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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