The Biographer's Tale
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| The Biographer's Tale | |
| Author | A. S. Byatt |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & Camden |
| Publication date | 1 November 2001 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 376 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7540-1641-2 |
The Biographer's Tale is a book by A. S. Byatt. The story is about a postgraduate student, Phineas G. Nanson, who decides to write a biography about an obscure biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes. During the course of his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of Destry-Scholes' unpublished research about real historical figures Carl Linnaeus, Francis Galton and Henrik Ibsen. In the book, Byatt combines facts with fiction when recounting the lives of the three latter figures.
[edit] External links
- The Biographer's Tale - at The Complete Review
