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As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from More... Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it...One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs. fiction, reality vs. art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration...

Condamné pour le meurtre d'un cheval, George Edalji, jeune avoué d'origine parisienne, est emprisonné puis relâché sans avoir été innocenté. Son teint mat et sa parfaite intégration sociale dérangent l'Angleterre bien-pensante de ce début de XXe siècle. Fragile, effacé maladroit et démuni, il va faire appel à Arthur Conan Doyle, alors un des hommes les plus célèbres d'Angleterre, le créateur de Sherlock Holmes... Extraordinaire tableau de la société victorienne, ce roman. inspiré d'un fait réel qui avait divisé l'Angleterre comme en France l'affaire Dreyfus, est aussi le plus passionnant et le plus haletant des thrillers.

Julian Barnes kunstvoller Roman uber eine unkonventionelle erste Liebe, die zur lebenslangen Herausforderung wird."Wurden Sie lieber mehr lieben und dafur mehr leiden, oder weniger lieben und weniger leiden? Das ist, glaube ich, am Ende die einzig wahre Frage."Die erste Liebe hat lebenslange Konsequenzen, aber davon hat Paul im Alter von neunzehn keine Ahnung. Mit neunzehn ist er stolz, dass seine Liebe zur verheirateten, fast 30 Jahre alteren Susan den gesellschaftlichen Konventionen ins Gesicht spuckt. Er ist ganz sicher, in Susan die Frau furs Leben gefunden zu haben, alles andere ist nebensachlich. Erst mit zunehmendem Alter wird Paul klar, dass die Anforderungen, die diese Liebe an ihn stellt, groer sind, als er es jemals fur moglich gehalten hatte."Die einzige Geschichte" ist ein tief bewegender Roman uber die Liebe. Nach "Der Larm der Zeit" und "Vom Ende einer Geschichte" beweist Bestseller-Autor und Man Booker Prize-Trager Julian Barnes aufs Neue, dass er ein Meister im Ausloten menschlicher Abgrunde ist.

Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue... It is a rare picture which stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Gericaults The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism.Fully illustrated in colour throughout, Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud.

A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the 1981 Somerset Maughan Award and "Flaubert's Parrot" which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.

«UNA DISSECCIÓ FASCINANT D'UNA ÈPOCA.» -_ THE INDEPENDENT_ 2A EDICIÓ L'estiu de 1885, tres francesos -un príncep, un comte i un metge- van viatjar a Londres per amarar-se de cultura anglesa. El metg

Elizabeth Finch dá aulas de Cultura e Civilização. A sua maneira de pensar não agrada a toda a gente: vai irritar uns, intimidar outros - e fazer alguns apaixonarem-se. Ela é rigorosa, empática e lev

Peint par John Sargent en 1881, Samuel Pozzi est un médecin réputé de la Belle Epoque, apprécié par ses patientes dont plusieurs sont ses ma®tresses, comme Sarah Bernhardt. Un récit d'inspiration bio

With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life.

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes an enthralling set of short stories. No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes.

The Pedant s ambition is simple He wants to cook tasty nutritious food he wants not to poison his friends and he wants to expand slowly and with pleasure his culinary repertoire A stern critic of himself and others he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes although he might in a burst of enthusiasm increase the quantity of a favourite ingredient Rather he is a recipe bound follower of the instructions of others It is in his interrogations of these recipes and of those who create them that the Pedant s true pedantry emerges How big exactly is a lump Is a slug larger than a gout When does a drizzle become a downpour And what is the difference between slicing and chopping This book is a witty and practical account of Julian Barnes search for gastronomic precision It is a quest that leaves him seduced by Jane Grigson infuriated by Nigel Slater and reassured by Mrs Beeton s Victorian virtues The Pedant in the Kitchen is perfect comfort for anyone who has ever been defeated by a cookbook and is something that none of Julian Barnes legion of admirers will want to miss

n the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the Belle Epoque - its heroes and villains, its writers, artists and thinkers - and a life of a man ahead of his time. Witty, surprising and deeply researched, the new book from Julian Barnes illuminates the fruitful and longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France, and makes a compelling case for keeping that exchange alive.

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.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed. This is a book of intense honesty and insight; it is at once a celebration of love and a profound examination of sorrow.