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Author: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Nigel Anthony
Duration 17h 13m
Arthur and George grew up worlds apart in late 19th-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as t...
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Richard Morant
Duration 4h 37m
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to...
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Guy Mott
Duration 7h 15m
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, th...
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Julian Barnes
Duration 10h 5m
This audiobook is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with Barnes' brother (a philosopher), a meditation on morality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. The result is a tour of the mind of this extraordinary author.
View BookA History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 10h 54m
A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and learned disquisition; there is heart-stopping documentary and heart-lifting revelation. But these stories are not se...
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