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Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes
Flaubert s Parrot Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797858

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BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.

Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Julian Barnes
Flaubert s Parrot A History of the World in 10 1 2 Chapters Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307961433

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Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes Pdf

An Everyman's Library hardcover omnibus edition of two of the Booker Prize-winning author's earliest and most admired novels, neither of which has been available in hardcover for more than two decades. With full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction. Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's breakthrough book—shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984—is the story of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor who is obsessed with the French author and with tracking down a stuffed parrot that once inspired him. Barnes playfully combines a literary detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is a mix of fictional and historical narratives of voyage and discovery—ranging from a woodworm's perspective on Noah's ark to a survivor from the sinking of the Titanic—that question our ideas of history. One of his most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as "frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read."

Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes
Flaubert s Parrot Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biographers
ISBN : PSU:000012772766

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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes Pdf

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.

Something to Declare

Julian Barnes
Something to Declare Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307368454

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Something to Declare by Julian Barnes Pdf

Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes's appreciation extends from France's vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here are the prolific and priapic Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand and Sartre, and several dazzling excursions on the prickly genius of Flaubert. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.

A Simple Soul

Gustave Flaubert
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Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387010541

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A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

The Lemon Table

Julian Barnes
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Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307366405

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Master prose stylist Julian Barnes presents a collection of stories whose characters are growing old and facing the end of their lives—some with bitterness, some with resignation and others with raging defiance. “Life is just a premature reaction to death,” was what Viv’s husband used to say. Once her lover and friend, he is now Viv’s semi-helpless charge, who is daily sinking ever deeper into dementia. In “Appetite,” Viv has found a way to reach her husband: by reading aloud snippets of recipe books until he calls out indelible—and sometimes unfortunate—scenes locked away in his brain. In “The Things You Know,” two elderly friends enjoy their monthly breakfast meetings that neither would ever think of missing. Of course, all they really have in common is a fondness for flat suede shoes and a propensity for thinking spiteful, unspoken thoughts about one another’s dead husbands. “The Fruit Cage” is narrated by a middle-aged man whose seemingly orderly upbringing is harrowingly undone when he discovers that his parents’ old age is not necessarily a time of serenity but actually an age of aroused, perhaps violent, passions. In these stories, Julian Barnes displays the erudition, wit and uncanny insight into the human mind that mark him as one of today’s great writers, one whose intellect and humour never obscure a genuine affection for his characters.

Staring At The Sun

Julian Barnes
Staring At The Sun Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367563

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Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes’s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes—winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending—follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalog of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed). Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original. “Brilliant. . . . A marvelous literary epiphany.” —Carlos Fuentes, The New York Times Book Review “Barnes’s literary energy and daring are nearly unparalleled.” —New Republic

Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

Gustave Flaubert
Dictionary of Accepted Ideas Book PDF

Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081120054X

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Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

Jacques Barzun's masterful translation proves that Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas--an acid catalogue of the clichés of 19th-century France--is as relevant today as ever.

Three Tales

Gustave Flaubert
Three Tales Book PDF

Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199555864

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Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert Pdf

Three Tales offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. A Simple Heart is set in the Normandy of Flaubert's childhood, while Saint Julian and Herodias draw on medieval myth and the biblical story of John the Baptist for their inspiration. Each of the tales invites comparison with one or other of Flaubert's novels, but they also reveal a fresh and distinctive side to the writers's genius. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Nothing to be Frightened Of

Julian Barnes
Nothing to be Frightened Of Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307368447

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Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes Pdf

"I don’t believe in God, but I miss him." So begins Julian Barnes’s brilliant new book that is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God and a homage to the writer Jules Renard. Barnes also draws poignant portraits of the last days of his parents, recalled with great detail, affection and exasperation. Other examples he takes up include writers, "most of them dead and quite a few of them French," as well as some composers, for good measure. The grace with which Barnes weaves together all of these threads makes the experience of reading the book nothing less than exhilarating. Although he cautions us that "this is not my autobiography," the book nonetheless reveals much about Barnes the man and the novelist: how he thinks and how he writes and how he lives. At once deadly serious and dazzlingly playful, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a wise, funny and constantly surprising tour of the human condition.

Metroland

Julian Barnes
Metroland Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797773

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Metroland by Julian Barnes Pdf

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is “wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence” (Vogue). Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out.

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10 1 2 Chapters Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367587

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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes Pdf

It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot.

Proust's Binoculars

Roger Shattuck
Proust s Binoculars Book PDF

Author : Roger Shattuck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400856916

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Proust's Binoculars by Roger Shattuck Pdf

In this compact volume readers just beginning Proust's master work and those who are already enriched by it will become aware of a significance not unkown but only forgotten"--the basic structure of Proust's enormous novel. The overall meaning of Proust's book lies in his three ways of looking at the world--cinematographic, montage, and stereoscopic--and their varying effects on the emotions and the intellect. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Talking It Over

Julian Barnes
Talking It Over Book PDF

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797889

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Talking It Over by Julian Barnes Pdf

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending delivers “fiction at its best” (The New York Times Book Review) in an unforgettable novel about two best friends and the beautiful woman who comes between them. First there’s Stuart, stolid, conventional, but not quite so dull as he pretends to be. Then there is Oliver, his glamorous, epigrammatic best friend. And veering wildly between them is Gillian, the cryptic beauty who marries Stuart and then astonishes everyone by falling in love with Oliver. These three are at once the protagonists and the hilariously unreliable “eye-witnesses” of this funny, elegant, and affecting novel by bestselling author Julian Barnes, which reimagines the romantic triangle as a weapon whose edges cut like razor blades.