Julian Barnes Livres

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.

Au lycée, ils étaient trois amis jusqu’a ce qu’Adrian se joigne a eux. Il était différent, brillant et plus mur. Tous l’admiraient. Ils croyaient alors vivre dans un enclos et qu’ils seraient bientôt lâchés dans la vraie vie. Pourtant, les jeux étaient faits en partie. A l'université, Tony, le narrateur, fréquenta Véronica et découvrit que le corps des filles est parfois défendu comme la zone d’exclusion d'un pays pour la peche… Quelques mois plus tard, il apprit qu’elle sortait désormais avec Adrian. De rage, il leur écrivit une lettre épouvantable… Pourquoi Adrian s’est-il suicidé? Quarante ans plus tard, le passé qui ressurgit révele une terrible vérité. Elle bouleversera Tony et chacun des lecteurs d’Une fille, qui danse.

"Préféreriez-vous aimer davantage, et souffrir davantage ; ou aimer moins, et moins souffrir ? C'est, je pense, finalement, la seule vraie question." Angleterre, années 1960. Paul a dix-neuf ans lorsqu'il rencontre Susan, une femme mariée de trente ans son aînée. Sur le court de tennis où ils disputent des parties en double, une passion se noue, totale, absolue. Ils la vivent fièrement, conscients de défier les conventions sociales. Mais les années passent, sans bruit, tandis que l'amour et la jeunesse de Paul se heurtent aux démons de Susan...

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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."

Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present.

Julian Barnes, one of Britain’s most distinguished novelists, is also an acclaimed essayist. A Life with Books is an essay specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, supplied exclusively to independent bookshops. In it, Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope that it will survive.A Life with Books is published as a pamphlet, with cover art by Suzanne Dean, the renowned designer responsible for the cover of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.

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.