Search Results: Flaubert's Parrot/A History Of the World In 10 1… by Julian Barnes

Everyman's Library, 2012. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Nice copy with dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate attached to front free endpaper. Just minor shelfwear. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.

Everyman's Library, 2012-10-01. Hardcover. New. 5x1x8. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxvii, 449 pages ; 21 cm. <br> "Flaubert's parrot: Relates a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters. History of the world in 10 1/2 chapters: An eccentric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit, intelligence, and emotion.

First Everyman's Library combined edition. Signed by Barnes on the publisher's bookplate affixed to the half-title page as issued. One of an unspecified number as such. Introduction by Sarah Churchwell. Select Bibliography. Chronology. Author's Note. Color foldout page. Satin pagemarker. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Flaubert's Parrot, originally published in 1984, is Barnes' third novel, the first of his to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the winner on the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters was originally published in 1989.