| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
Julian Barnes
new books, used books, rare books by Julian Barnes
› Find all books by 'Julian Barnes' and compare prices› Find signed collectible books by 'Julian Barnes'
Arthur and Georgeby Julian BarnesISBN 0224077821 (0-224-07782-1)
Softcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur and George'Book summary:A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. They start out very differently. Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer; George, on his way to becoming a lawyer--near-sighted, timid and friendless--is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat--a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals. Meanwhile, Arthur is becoming more and more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, whom he tries to kill off once and is forced to resurrect because of his fans' outcry. He marries, fathers two children and then, when his wife is invalided by consumption, falls madly in love for the first time with Jean Leckie.
The novel's style is smoothly revelatory. We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name. This case of George's lifts Arthur from the slough of despond into which he has sunk after his wife, Touie, dies. He is guilt-ridden, constantly wondering if he was attentive enough, if she could possibly have known about Jean. Realizing the immense injustice George has suffered, he is shaken out of lethargy and, in Holmesian fashion, sets out to solve the case.
Julian Barnes is a gifted writer of enormous accomplishment. This novel is thoroughly engrossing, filled with Barnes's trademark themes of identity and love, longing and loss, and ultimately, an examination of man's inhumanity to man. --Valerie Ryan [via]
More editions of Arthur and George:
- Arthur and George: ISBN 0224077031 (0-224-07703-1)
Hardcover, Random House - Arthur and George (Signed): ISBN 0224077244 (0-224-07724-4)
Hardcover, Random House - Arthur and George: ISBN 030726310X (0-307-26310-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Arthur and George: ISBN 0224077821 (0-224-07782-1)
Softcover, Random House
- Arthur and George: ISBN 0224077031 (0-224-07703-1)
Before She Met Meby Julian BarnesISBN 0330300059 (0-330-30005-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Before She Met Me'
Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0330289764 (0-330-28976-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'More editions of Flaubert's Parrot:
A History of the World in 10 and Half Chaptersby Julian BarnesISBN 0330313991 (0-330-31399-1)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the World in 10 and Half Chapters'More editions of A History of the World in 10 and Half Chapters:
In the Land of Painby Alphonse Daudet, Julian BarnesISBN 0224062670 (0-224-06267-0)
Hardcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Land of Pain'More editions of In the Land of Pain:
The Lemon Table: Storiesby Julian BarnesISBN 0224073923 (0-224-07392-3)
Softcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lemon Table: Stories'Book summary:If Julian Barnes' new collection of stories has a theme it is 'rage in age'. Among the Chinese the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table' (a coinage of Sibelius, protagonist of the final story) it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. The settings range from eighteenth-century Sweden and nineteenth-century Russia to the 'Barnet Shop', a hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, or a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts. In 'Knowing French' an eighty-four-year old woman, a former teacher 'incarcerated' in an old people's home, begins a correspondence with an author - 'Dear Dr Barnes' - that enriches both their lives. In 'Appetite' a woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex. In 'Hygiene' an old soldier makes his regular trip to town to do errands for his wife - stilton from Paxton's, rubber rings for Kilner jars, Elizabeth Arden powder - and to spend the afternoon with a tart called Babs. These stories are wise, funny, clever and moving. [via]
More editions of The Lemon Table: Stories:
Love, etc.by Julian BarnesISBN 0224067133 (0-224-06713-3)
Softcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Love, etc.'-
Metrolandby Julian BarnesISBN 0330313819 (0-330-31381-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Metroland'Book summary:Sixteen-year-old suburbanite Chris Lloyd and his mate Toni spend their free time wishing they were French, making up stories about strangers, and pretending to be flâneurs. When they grow up they'd like to be "artists-in-residence at a nudist colony." If youthful voyeurism figures heavily in their everyday lives, so, too, do the pleasures of analogy, metaphor, and deliberate misprision. Sauntering into one store that dares to call itself MAN SHOP, Toni demands: "One man and two small boys, please."
Julian Barnes could probably fill several books with these boys' clever misadventures, but in his first novel he attempts something more daring--the curve from youthful scorn to adult contentment. In 1968, when Chris goes off to Paris, he misses the May événements but manages, more importantly, to fall in love and learn the pleasures of openness: "The key to Annick's candour was that there was no key. It was like the atom bomb: the secret is that there is no secret." The final section finds Chris back in suburbia, married, with children and a mortgage, and slowly accepting the surprise that happiness isn't boring. "It's certainly ironic to be back in Metroland. As a boy, what would I have called it: le syphilis de l'âme, or something like that, I dare say. But isn't part of growing up being able to ride irony without being thrown?" Far from renouncing the joys of language, this novel wittily celebrates honest communication. --Kerry Fried [via]
Nothing to Be Frightened ofby Julian BarnesISBN 0224085239 (0-224-08523-9)
Hardcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing to Be Frightened of'More editions of Nothing to Be Frightened of:
Porcupineby Julian BarnesISBN 033032828X (0-330-32828-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Porcupine'More editions of Porcupine:
-
Staring at the Sunby Julian BarnesISBN 0330299301 (0-330-29930-1)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Staring at the Sun'Book summary:a novel. [via]
More editions of Staring at the Sun:
Talking It Overby Julian BarnesISBN 0330325671 (0-330-32567-1)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking It Over'More editions of Talking It Over:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}