Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10½ Chapters – First Edition 1989
£45.00
A first edition, first printing of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1989. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with some toning to the text block. In a fine unclipped wrapper. With a contemporary Austicks Bookshop purchase receipt dated 23.6.89.
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes is a playful, sceptical 1989 novel-in-stories, linking Noah’s Ark, shipwrecks, terrorism, religious trials, art history, love and heaven. Rather than offering a grand historical narrative, it questions how history is told, remembered and distorted. Ships, survival and unreliable witnesses recur throughout. Witty, learned and structurally inventive, it is one of Barnes’s most characteristic meditations on truth, myth and human self-deception.
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A first edition, first printing of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1989. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with some toning to the text block. In a fine unclipped wrapper. With a contemporary Austicks Bookshop purchase receipt dated 23.6.89.
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes is a playful, sceptical 1989 novel-in-stories, linking Noah’s Ark, shipwrecks, terrorism, religious trials, art history, love and heaven. Rather than offering a grand historical narrative, it questions how history is told, remembered and distorted. Ships, survival and unreliable witnesses recur throughout. Witty, learned and structurally inventive, it is one of Barnes’s most characteristic meditations on truth, myth and human self-deception.
