Something to Declare
by Julian Barnes · narrated by Simon Vance
Duration09:36:56
Chapters18
LanguageEnglish
Chapters
18 tracks
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1
. Preface
00:21:55
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2
. An Englishman Abroad
00:28:40
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3
. Spending Their Deaths on Holiday
00:31:41
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4
. The Promises of Their Ordination
00:22:22
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5
. The Land Without Brussels Sprouts
00:24:46
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6
. Tour de France 1907
00:26:38
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7
. Tour de France 2000
00:41:48
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8
. The Pouncer
00:16:34
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9
. French Letters
01:09:59
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10
. Flaubert's Death-Masks
00:50:54
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11
. Not Drowning but Waving꞉ The Case of Louise Colet
00:43:01
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12
. Drinking Ink
00:31:11
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13
. Two Moles
00:07:56
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14
. Consolation v. Desolation
00:38:56
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15
. Tail-Flaying
00:27:50
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16
. The Cost of Conscientious Literature
00:32:43
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17
. Faithful Betrayal
00:34:58
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18
. Justin꞉ A Small Major Character
00:25:02
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Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’ previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes’ appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyperliterate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here
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