A. S. Byatt Summary

Although thus far she has written only three novels, A. S. Byatt has nonetheless achieved a distinguished place as a person of letters in the last two decades. As novelist, critic, reviewer, editor, a... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement To be the offspring of genius, even if not everyone considers it genius, must make growing-up even more difficult than it is for most of us. And to writ... Read more

Critical Essay by Louise Bernikow Besides the intellectual artifice, at the heart of the boxes within boxes, puns, parodies, donnish and in-groupy references, which I imagine an American reader will f... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement The problems of Cassandra and Julia Corbett, the heroines of [The Game], come into the domain of moral philosophy. One solution, it seems, is to recreat... Read more

Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury [The Game,] a deep and able book, is the sensibility romance in its more traditional guise. It not only uses but is deeply sympathetic to those sensitive personal re... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Irwin The action of this careful, complex novel [The Virgin in the Garden] takes place in Yorkshire in Coronation year. Its theme is growing up, coming of age, tasting knowle... Read more

Critical Essay by Rosemary Dinnage ["The Virgin in the Garden"] is grave, solid, ample as a Yorkshire tea, with deliberate hints of the Northern tradition of Mrs. Gaskell and Charlotte B... Read more