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Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World

By Julian Barnes
Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
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Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World by Julian Barnes is a witty and ingenious exploration of the life and legacy of Gustave Flaubert. Through the eyes of an obsessed English doctor, the narrative examines Flaubert’s works and the concept of literary history, blending fact and fiction in a clever meditation on the way we interpret the past. The book is a testament to Barnes' inventive storytelling, mixing biographical sketches, literary criticism, and pure imagination.
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Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World

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.

In these two masterpieces of post-modernism, Julian Barnes explores themes of identity, authenticity and history. Hardback classic edition.

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In these two masterpieces of post-modernism, Julian Barnes explores themes of identity, authenticity and history. Hardback classic edition.

Flaubert's Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns 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.

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present. One of the author's most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as 'frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic and a delight to read'.

Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781841593487

Publisher: Everyman

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 September 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Everyman's Library

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 598g

Pages: 488

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Fiction General Fiction Julian Barnes Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

About the Author

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Legion d'honneur.

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