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Title
Babel Tower
Author A. S. Byatt
Genre Academic fiction, British literature, Feminist fiction, Historical fiction, Literary fiction, Metafiction
Format N/A

 

Book Description
Babel Tower is the third novel in A. S. Byatt’s Frederica Quartet. Set in the early 1960s, it follows Frederica Potter as she escapes a destructive marriage and seeks independence through work, motherhood, and intellectual engagement. Interwoven with her story is a controversial fictional book at the center of an obscenity trial, allowing Byatt to explore language, power, censorship, and the clash between personal freedom and social constraint during a period of profound cultural change.

 

About Author
A. S. Byatt (1936–2023), born Antonia Susan Drabble, was an acclaimed British novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic. Educated at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, she taught literature for many years while developing a body of fiction celebrated for its intellectual depth and stylistic range. Byatt achieved wide recognition with Possession: A Romance (1990), which won the Booker Prize and became her best-known work. Her writing often blends narrative with philosophy, myth, science, and art history, reflecting her belief in the pleasures of serious reading. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1999 for services to literature.

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