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Selected Short Stories

A Vision of the World

From the Booker Prize-winning author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

Elizabeth Finch

The Man in the Red Coat

Essays on Art (Updated Edition)

Keeping an Eye Open

The Pedant in the Kitchen

Parade's End

The Only Story

In the Land of Pain

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The classic Booker Prize-winning novel

The Sense of an Ending

The Noise of Time

Before She Met Me

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Flaubert's Parrot

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Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in

A gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!

Endless food for thought, beautifully written... A tour de force

A wry and graceful book... Unfailingly sharp and often very funny

Delightful and enriching... A book to revel in!

Julian Barnes' wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years

A delight... Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984

A dazzling achievement...remarkably inventive as well as audacious

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey and his own life.

A classic work by a great British author, published for the first time by Vintage and Vintage Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
 
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 
 
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. 
 
A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality. 
 
 
© Julian Barnes 1984 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

Julian Barnes (Author, Reader) 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 Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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