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Author |
: Iain Pears |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 835 |
Release |
: 1999-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101640111 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101640111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Instance of the Fingerpost by : Iain Pears
In 1663 Oxford, a servant girl confesses to a murder. But four witnesses--a medical student, the son of a traitor, a cryptographer, and an archivist--each finger a different culprit...
Author |
: Iain Pears |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 934 |
Release |
: 2009-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385530248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385530242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stone's Fall by : Iain Pears
At his London home, John Stone falls out of a window to his death. A financier and arms dealer, Stone was a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. Did he jump, was he pushed, or was it merely a tragic accident? His alluring and enigmatic widow hires a young crime reporter to investigate. The story moves backward in time—from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867—and the attempts to uncover the truth play out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe’s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race. Stone’s Fall is a tale of love and frailty, as much as it is of high finance and skulduggery. The mixture, then, as now, is an often fatal combination.
Author |
: Iain Pears |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 583 |
Release |
: 2016-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101946831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101946830 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arcadia by : Iain Pears
From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape—remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten is writing about. There she meets a young boy named Jay who is about to embark on a journey that will change both their lives. Elsewhere, in a distopian society where progress is controlled by a corrupt ruling elite, the brilliant scientist Angela Meerson has discovered the potential of a powerful new machine. When the authorities come knocking, she will make an important decision—one that will reverberate through all these different lives and worlds.
Author |
: Iain Pears |
Publisher |
: Vintage Canada |
Total Pages |
: 539 |
Release |
: 2010-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307370884 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307370887 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dream of Scipio by : Iain Pears
Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.
Author |
: Central Employment Bureau for Women and Students' Careers Association (London, England) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 1906 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105036719917 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fingerpost by : Central Employment Bureau for Women and Students' Careers Association (London, England)
Author |
: Iain Pears |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2006-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781440685019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1440685010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Portrait by : Iain Pears
A national bestseller from acclaimed author Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force. An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's patronage, and his callous betrayals. As he struggles to capture the character of the man, as well as his image, on canvas, it becomes clear that there is much more than a portrait at stake... Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio are also available from Riverhead Books.
Author |
: Bruce Holsinger |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2014-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780007493319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0007493312 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Burnable Book by : Bruce Holsinger
A stunning debut historical thriller set in the turbulent 14th Century for fans of CJ Sansom, The Name of the Rose and An Instance of the Fingerpost.
Author |
: Iain Pears |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780007229178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0007229178 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Raphael Affair by : Iain Pears
This is the first novel in Iain Pears's acclaimed art crime series, introducing General Bottando and Flavia di Stefano of the Italian National Art Theft Squad. It has an evocative Italian setting and an authentic art historical background.
Author |
: John O' Groat's House |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 1825 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0017398624 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fingerpost; Or Direct Road from John O' Groat's to the Land's End. Being a Discussion of the Railway Question. By???. by : John O' Groat's House
Author |
: Iain Pears |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780007229215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0007229216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death and Restoration by : Iain Pears
Flavia di Stefano of Rome's art police is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the monastery of San Giovanni. With the help of art dealer Jonathan Argyll, they attempt to solve the mystery.