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ANGELS ​AND INSECTS comprises two novellas, each set in the 19th century. In the first, „Morpho Eugenia,” a young entomologist named William Adamson is employed as a cataloguer by a clergyman with an interest in insects. The man has a devastatingly beautiful daughter, the eponymous Eugenia, with whom William falls helplessly in love. „Morpho Eugenia” is also the name of an elusive butterfly. It is only after William marries Eugenia that he becomes aware of his wife's true nature, and of some bizarre correspondences between her and some of the insects he has been studying. A minor character in „Morpho Eugenia” becomes a main character in „The Conjugal Angel,” in which the poet Tennyson's sister Emily continues to be obsessed with the man she loved--Arthur Hallam, who died at sea and was immortalized by Tennyson in his famous poem „In Memoriam.” Now Emily, married but having doubts about her husband, consults a clairvoyant hoping to get in touch with Arthur's spirit. In both… (tovább)

ANGELS ​AND INSECTS comprises two novellas, each set in the 19th century. In the first, „Morpho Eugenia,” a young entomologist named William Adamson is employed as a cataloguer by a clergyman with an interest in insects. The man has a devastatingly beautiful daughter, the eponymous Eugenia, with whom William falls helplessly in love. „Morpho Eugenia” is also the name of an elusive butterfly. It is only after William marries Eugenia that he becomes aware of his wife's true nature, and of some bizarre correspondences between her and some of the insects he has been studying. A minor character in „Morpho Eugenia” becomes a main character in „The Conjugal Angel,” in which the poet Tennyson's sister Emily continues to be obsessed with the man she loved--Arthur Hallam, who died at sea and was immortalized by Tennyson in his famous poem „In Memoriam.” Now Emily, married but having doubts about her husband, consults a clairvoyant hoping to get in touch with Arthur's spirit. In both novellas, as in her bestselling novel POSSESSION, A.S. Byatt reveals her awesome erudition and her firm grasp of the details of life in Victorian England.