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Nothing to Be Frightened of

Julian Barnes

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Arthur And George

Julian Barnes

Set against the backdrop of the British Empire, an intriguing novel by the author of Flaubert's Parrot chronicles the lives of two boys--George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, growing up in Edinburgh--one who is forgotten by history, and one who becomes the creator of the world's most famous detective, as they pursue their separate destinies until they meet in a remarkable alliance.

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The Lemon Table: Stories

Julian Barnes

In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.

The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives–some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversations provide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In today’s England, a retired army major heads into the city for his regimental dinner–and his annual appointment with a professional lady named Babs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments) her ailing husband by reading him recipes.
In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it one way or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever, and profound–a writer of astonishing powers of empathy and invention.

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Other editions: 2004, Hardcover - 2004, 2004

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In the Land of Pain

Julian Barnes; Alphonse Daudet

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Inglaterra, Inglaterra

Julian Barnes

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Love, Etc

Julian Barnes

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Other editions: 2002, Hardcover - 2001, Softcover - 2001, Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 2001

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Talking It over

Julian Barnes

In this powerfully affecting Flaubert's Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. "An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit. . . . It's moving, it's funny, it's frightening . . . fiction at its best."--New York Times Book Review.

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Other editions: 2001, Hardcover - 1991, 1991

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England, England

Julian Barnes

From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage...A commanding imaginative achievement."Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or less), and the cliffs of Dover actually are white. Now imagine that the principal national treasures--from Stonehenge to Buckingham Palace--are grouped together on the Isle of Wight.This is precisely the vision that Sir Jack Pitman seeks to realize: a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben, Wembley Stadium, the National Gallery, Princess Di's grave, and even Harrods (conveniently located inside the Tower of London), and visit them all in the course of a weekend. As this land of make-believe takes on its own comic and horrible reality, Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, a hilarious romp, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.Julian Barnes, according to The Sunday Times, "has written nothing more poignant and enticing."

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 1999, 1999

Metroland

Julian Barnes; Greg Wise

Growing up in the sixties, Chris and Toni, face the sexual longings of adolescence, find adulthood in Paris, and return home to join adult society.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1992, Softcover - 1987, 1980, Hardcover - 1980

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Cross Channel

Julian Barnes

In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barness English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they discover, alongside rich food and barbarous sexual and religious practices, is their own ineradicable Englishness. The ten stories that make up Cross Channel introduce us to a plethora of intriguing, original, and sometimes ill-fated characters. Elegantly conceived and seductively written, Cross Channel is further evidence of Barnes's wizardry."Barnes is a witty, playful and ironic writer at the top of his form...Cross Channel is in the best sense an artful book."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Fluently written, finely observed...delicately patterned."--New York Times

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1996

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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters

Julian Barnes

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Letters from London: 1990-1995

Julian Barnes

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Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes

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

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Other editions: 1994, Softcover - 1985, Hardcover - 1985, 1984

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The Porcupine

Julian Barnes

The author of Talking It Over trains his laser-bright intelligence and phosphorescent prose on the ambiguities raised by the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. "His literary energy and daring are nearly unparalleled among contemporary English novelists."--New Republic.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1992

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Before She Met Me

Julian Barnes

At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1986, 1982

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A History of the World in 10-1/2 Chapters

Julian Barnes

This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1990, 1990, Hardcover - 1989