A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
(Vintage International)
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Book Description
This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!
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guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010
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Balancing Act
The new work of fiction by Julian Barnes is his fifth since 1981, and about as much entitled to the name of a “novel” as to the name of A History of the World. Like its predecessor, Flaubert’s Parrot, it is a novel in deep disguise. Setting aside the ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010
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Sengaia said on Apr 27, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 320 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0679731377
- ISBN-13: 9780679731375
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Nov 27, 1990
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Hooper Ij 
A reader-friendly kind of God
The phrase 'novel of ideas' has become something of a last resort for critics. Writers don't like it much either, and you can see why. It might contain a muted compliment on the grounds of intellectual clout, but it also implies precisely the kind of ... (read full critics)