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The following represents a complete listing of books written by Julian
Barnes.
For
books written by Dan Kavanagh, please visit www.dankavanagh.com.
All dust jackets
are from the first UK edition.
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Metroland |
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This was Julian Barnes's first novel. It took between 7-8 years to
write and draws heavily on his personal experiences growing up in the suburbs
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Before She Met Me |
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Barnes's second book under his own name. Graham Hendrick divorces,
remarries, and finds himself consumed with jealousy as he investigates his
new wife's former love affairs. The novel is gritty, shocking, and quite
moving in its portrayal of the slow deterioration of its central character. |
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Flaubert's Parrot |
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Barnes's "breakthrough" novel about an English doctor's
obsession with Gustave Flaubert and his use of Flaubert's writings to make
sense of his own life. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. |
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Staring at the Sun |
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Barnes examines the ordinary life of Jean Serjeant from her childhood
in the 1920s through her adulthood to the year 2021. Throughout her life,
Jean learns to question the world's idea of truth while she explores the
beauty and miracles of everyday life. |
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A History of the World
in 10½ Chapters |
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Connecting themes of voyage and discovery, History has become
one of Barnes's most studied and talked about novels. The mixture of
fictional and historical narratives provides Barnes the opportunity to
question our ideas of history, our interpretation of facts, and our search
for answers to explain our interaction and placement within the grand scope
of history. "Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic and a
delight to read." -- Salman Rushdie, Observer |
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Talking It Over |
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The ostentatious Oliver falls in love with quiet Gillian and wants to
marry her. The problem? Gillian has already married Oliver's best and oldest
friend, the somewhat stale but stable Stuart. Each character takes turns
addressing the reader in this bright and funny "he said/she said/he
said" novel. |
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The Porcupine |
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With the collapse of Communism in |
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Letters from London |
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Barnes served as |
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Cross Channel |
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A collection of short stories that explore the connections,
similarities, and differences between |
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England, England |
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Sir Jack Pitman creates a theme park on the Isle of Wight that
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Love, etc |
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In Talking It Over, Stuart and Oliver fought for the love of
Gillian. One of them won, but what happened next? Love, etc catches up
with this trio after ten years only to find more chaos and confusion. Written
in the same style as the prequel, Barnes takes the form a few steps
further as the characters plead for the reader's attention. |
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Something to Declare |
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A collection of essays on the subject of |
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In the |
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A translation of
Alphonse Daudet's notes written during his suffering with syphilis. Written by Alphonse
Daudet; Edited & Translated by Julian Barnes |
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The Pedant in the
Kitchen
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The Lemon Table |
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Arthur & George |
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A novel about low crime and high spirituality; guilt and innocence;
identity, nationality and race; and thwarted passion. |
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Nothing to be
Frightened of |
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‘I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.’ Julian Barnes’ new book is, among
many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a
meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an
argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard.
Though he warns us that ‘this is not my autobiography’, the result is like a
tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers. When Angela Carter
reviewed Barnes’s first novel, Metroland, she praised the mature way
he wrote about death. Now, nearly thirty years later, he returns to the
subject in a wise , funny and constantly surprising book, which defies
category and classification – except as Barnesian. |
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©1996-2008 by Ryan Roberts
URL: http://www.julianbarnes.com/bib/books.html
Biography of Julian Barnes [1] [2] [3] [4]
Articles [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
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