Elementals (15 page)

A. S. BYATT

Elementals

A. S. Byatt is famed for her short fiction, collected in
Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories,
and
The
Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye.
Her full-length novels include the Booker Prize–winning
Possession
and the trilogy sequence of novels
The Virgin in the Garden,
Still Life,
and
Babel Tower.
She has also published four volumes of critical work, of which
Imagining
Characters
is the most recent. She lives in London.

ALSO BY A. S. BYATT

FICTION

The Shadow of the Sun
The Game
The Virgin in the Garden
Still Life
Sugar and Other Stories
Possession: A Romance
Angels and Insects
The Matisse Stories
Babel Tower
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

CRITICISM

Degrees of Freedom: The Novels of Iris Murdoch
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings
Imagining Characters (with Ignês Sodré)

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JULY 2000

Copyright © 1998 by A. S. Byatt

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“Baglady” appeared in the
Daily Telegraph,
and “A Lamia in the Cévennes”
in
The Atlantic Monthly,
© 1995; “Jael” in
The Guardian,
© 1997;
“Christ in the House of Martha and Mary” on
Word Pictures,
BBC Radio 3,
and in
You
magazine,
Mail on Sunday,
and “Crocodile Tears” in
The Paris Review,
© 1998.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random House edition as follows:
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan).
Elementals: stories of fire and ice / A. S. Byatt.
p. cm.

1. Polarity—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6052.Y2E44 1999
823’.914—dc21 99-10627

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