- The Biographer's Tale
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name = The Biographer's Tale
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author =A. S. Byatt
country =United Kingdom
language = English
genre =Novel
publisher =Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & Camden
release_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 apostgraduate student,Phineas G. Nanson , who decides to write abiography about anobscure 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his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of Destry-Scholes' unpublished research about real historical figuresCarl Linnaeus ,Francis Galton andHenrik Ibsen . In the book, Byatt combines facts with fiction when recounting the lives of the three latter figures.External links
* [http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/byattas/bstale.htm The Biographer's Tale] - at The Complete Review
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