Like A.S. Byatt¿s Booker Prize-winning novel, <i>Possession</i>, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In <i>Morpho Eugenia</i>, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In <i>The Conjugal Angel</i>, curious individuals ¿ some fictional, others drawn from history ¿ gather to connect with the spirit world. Throughout both, Byatt examines the eccentricities of the Victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry.