A History of the World in 10-1/2 Chapters - Couverture rigide

Barnes, Julian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394580613 ISBN 13 : 9780394580616

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Barnes Julian

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we think about what we think we know" (Observer)

"You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's nothing around to touch it" (Literary Review)

"There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here than you will read in a month of Sundays... storytelling and teaching which captivate, liberate, and above all, enchant" (Financial Times)

"This is a novel like no other - provocative, superbly funny, a wonderful and most original work...gives the reader a sense of ebullient, whooping joy" (Guardian)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14–18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0394580613
• ISBN 13: 9780394580616
• Reliure: Relié