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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye is a 1994 collection of five mythical short stories by British novelist A. S. Byatt. [1] The collection includes two short stories, "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Story," originally published in the novel Possession, [1] as well as the titular story, "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye", which was ...
- A. S. Byatt
- 1994
27 de oct. de 1998 · 4.4 397 ratings. See all formats and editions. A stunning collection of fairy tales for grown-ups from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, a "storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review).
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- A. S. Byatt
- $15.95
- Vintage
2 de dic. de 2010 · A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes.
1 de ene. de 1994 · Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (the story) reads like a fusion of Jorge Luis Borges and Barry Lopez told through the lens of a middle-aged woman. It shares Borges' obsession with the trappings and inner logic of the fairy tale and medieval Arabic culture, but uses them to explore Gillian's life and personality, rather than ...
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The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. A. S. Byatt. Issue 133, Winter 1994. Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and ...
About The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. A stunning collection of fairy tales for grown-ups from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, a “storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights” (The New York Times Book Review).
Today we have two reviews of A.S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye is a collection of five stories, or more accurately, four stories and a novella, since the title story is actually quite long; it takes up half the book.
