A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

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Editions

London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. ISBN:0224026690 

Mississauga, Ont.: Random House of Canada, 1989. ISBN: 0394221214 

New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1989. 307 p. ISBN: 0394580613 

([1] folded leaf of plates: col. ill.; 23 cm.) 

London: Pan Books, 1990. 309 p. (20 cm.) 

London: Picador, 1990. 309 p. ISBN: 0330313991 (paperback) 

Une histoire du monde en 10 chapitres ½. [Paris]: Stock, 1990. 411 p.: ill. (23 cm.) ISBN: 2234022509 

(Series: Nouveau cabinet cosmopolite) 

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Oxford, England: Isis Audio Books, 1990. ISBN: 1850897301 Recording: 8 sound cassettes (10 hr., 25 min.): analog. (Complete and unabridged. Read by Tony Robinson. Music No.: IAB 90052) 

New York: Vintage Books, 1990. 307, [1]p.; (21 cm.) ISBN: 0679731377 

Toronto: Vintage Books, 1990. 307 p. [1] folded leaf of plates: 1 col. ill.; (21 cm.) ISBN: 0394221796 

Oxford: Clio, 1990. 499 p. (22 cm.) ISBN: 1850893489 (ISIS large print.) 

10½ lukua maailmanhistoriaa. Porvoo Helsinki Juva: WSOY, 1990. 430, [1] s., [2] kuvas.: kuv.; (21 cm.) ISBN: 951-0-16539-5 (hardback) 

(Translated into Finnish by Kristiina Drews. Additional Title: Kymmenen ja puoli lukua maailmanhistoriaa) 

Toldot ha-olam be-10 1/2 perakim. Tel-Aviv: Zemorah-Bitan, 1991. 255 p., [2] leaves of plates; (22 cm.) (Translated into Hebrew by David Shaham.) 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Jukkanibunnoissho de kakareta sekai no rekishi. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1991. 401 p.; (20 cm.) ISBN: 4560044678 (Translated by Ai Tanji and Toshie Tanji.) 

Una historia del mundo en diez capitulos y medio. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1994. 359 p., [2] leaves of plates: col. ill.; (21 cm.) ISBN: 8433914286 (paperback) (Series: Compactos Anagrama; 98 Coleccion Compactos; 18. Translated into Spanish.) 

10½ lukua maailmanhistoriaa. Porvoo Helsinki Juva: WSOY, 1995. 430, [1] s.; (20 cm.) ISBN: 951-0-20137-5 (paperback) (Translated into Finnish by Kristiina Drews. Second edition. Additional Title: Kymmenen ja puoli lukua maailmanhistoriaa) 

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 349 p.: col. ill.; (20 cm.) ISBN: 0521484782 (paperback) (Series: Cambridge literature. Edited by Ron Middleton. Includes study questions for educators and students.) 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Criticism & Reviews

Buxton, Jackie. "Julian Barnes's Theses on History (in 10½ Chapters)." Contemporary Literature 41(1) (Spring 2000): 56-86. (ISSN: 0010-7484) 

Goer, Charis and Christoph Henke. "'How do you turn catastrophe into art?' Oder: Der Stoff, aus dem die Katastrophen sind. Ein Zwiegespräch zum 'Floß der Medusa' in Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10½ Chapters." Verstärker 4, no. 4 (4 November 1999): http://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/verstaerker/vs004/goer_henke.html 

Finney, Brian. "Fictionalizing the Factual: Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10½ Chapters." Brian Finney Website (21 March 1999) <http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/Barnes.html> 

Kotte, Claudia. "Random Patterns? Orderly Disorder in Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 and ½ Chapters." AAA -- Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 22 (1997): 107-128. 

Raykowski, Harald. "Gegenwartsromane im Englischunterricht? Julian Barnes und der neue historische Roman." Neusprachliche Mitteilungen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis 50(2) (1997): 93-97. (ISSN: 0028-3983) 

Guignery, Vanessa. "Palimpseste et pastiche generique chez Julian Barnes." Etudes Anglaises 50(1) (January-March 1997): 40-52. (ISSN: 0014-195X) 

French, Jana L. Fantastic Histories: A Dialogic Approach to a Narrative Hybrid. Dissertation. University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1996. 

Samb, Bathie. "Histoire, fiction et remaniement de soi dans A History of the World in 10½ Chapters de Julian Barnes." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies Vol. 7 (March 1996): 107-127. (ISSN: 0850-1335) 

Halim, Nadia Maria. "An Ark on Which Two Might Escape": Modernist and Postmodernist Discourse Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Queen's University At Kingston (Canada), 1994. pp.78 (Dissertation. Adviser: Patricia Rae) 

Hallet, Wolfgang. "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Ein Hinweis auf Julian Barnes' postmoderne Weltgeschichte." Anglistik and Englischunterricht 49 (1993): 137-148. (ISSN: 0344-8266) 

Kelly, Lionel. "The Ocean, The Harbour, The City: Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines no.2 (1993). <http://147.210.118.50/ebc/ebc21.html> 

Little, Roger. "A Simple Story: 'Sur la mer des Caraibes'." Revue de Litterature Comparee 66(4) (October-December 1992): 439-44. (ISSN: 0035-1466) 

Salyer, Gregory. "One Good Story Leads to Another: Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10½ Chapters." Journal of Literature & Theology 5(2) (June 1991): 220-233. 

Raucq Hoorickx, Isabelle. "Julian Barnes' History of the World in 10½ Chapters: A Levinasian Deconstructionist Point of View." Le Langage et l'Homme: Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur le Langage 26(1) (March 1991): 47-54. (ISSN: 0458-7251) 

Higdon, David Leon. "'Unconfessed Confessions': the Narrators of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes." In The British & Irish Novel since 1960. Ed. James Acheson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 174-191. 

Kermode, Frank. "Stowaway Woodworm." London Review of Books 11 (22 June 1989): 20. 

Taylor, D. J. "A Newfangled and Funny Romp." Spectator (24 June 1989): 40-41. 

Woods, James. "Blinded by the Might." Times (London) (24 June 1989): 36-37. 

Oates, Joyce Carol. "But Noah Was Not a Nice Man." New York Times Book Review 94 (1 October 1989): 12-13. 

Related Internet Sites

Erica Hateley's "Resources for Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10½ Chapters." This webpage compiles citations for reviews, criticism, and interviews relating to Barnes's novel. 

View Géricault's Raft of the Medusa. 

Works Cited at the End of the Novel

Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917. The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals. London: Faber, 1987. xxxi, 336 p. (20 cm.) ISBN: 057114893X (Paperback. Facsimile of the edition published in London by Heinemann, 1906.) See also: "The Law is an Ass: Reading E.P. Evans' The Medieval Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals" by Piers Beirne, University of Southern Maine. 

Savigny, Jean Baptiste Henri, 1793-1843. Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816, Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Compromising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew and the Various Occurences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis and at the Camp of Daccard, to which are Subjoined Observations Respecting the Agriculture of the Western Coast of Africa, from the Cape Blanco to the Mouth of the Gambia. London: H. Colburn, 1818. xii, 360 p. (Translation of Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse, faisant partie de l'expédition du Sénégal en 1816; Alexandre Corréard) 

Eitner, Lorenz. Géricault: His Life and Work. London: Orbis Publishing, 1982. 376 p. (30 cm.) ISBN: 0856133841 

Thomas, Gordon and Max Morgan Witts. Voyage of the Damned. London: Hodder and Stoughton; Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1974. 

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