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Land of Marvels: A Novel
Barry Unsworth

Nan A. Talese, 2009

Barry Unsworth, a writer with an ?almost magical capacity for literary time travel? ( New York Times Book Review ) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels , a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Somerville, a British ...

Crete (Literary Travel)

3 reviews
Barry Unsworth

National Geographic, 2007

delightful
I was surprised and pleased to find a new Unsworth book- particularly since I am planning a trip to Greece this summer. I have perused several travel guides, but this book stands out, despite its brevity (or perhaps on account of it). Unsworth's glimpse at Crete is by no means comprehensive, but fills in the gaps that he proposes- What kind of place Crete is, some interesting things to see ...

Morality Play

46 reviews
Barry Unsworth

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1995

A smart page-turner murder mystery
This is a really entertaining book, a mystery told by a master storyteller, with beautiful langauge but never a false step in the telling of a good story. Barry Unsworth offers us a mystery from the 14th century full of modern conceptions integrated into the narrative. We get a tale of child molestation and murder mixed with the social and class structure of the middle ages. Unsworth knows that ...

Pascali's Island

4 reviews
Barry Unsworth

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Very disturbing and penetrating
It's not the mastery of language. Nor is it the precision with which Unsworth draws his characters. It is, rather, the skill, always evident in his work, with which he illuminates moral dilemnas that makes this book unforgettable. An intense foray into the mind and heart of am informer, this novel will touch all those who have ever wanted to tell their own story but felt unworthy. A very ...

Sacred Hunger

39 reviews
Barry Unsworth

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1991

Greed , power and the forces that counteract them
Barry Unsworth's historic novel that won the Booker Prize is an exceptional literary accomplishment and well worth the prize. The word 'vast' would be a good way to describe the novel since it has multiple vividly drawn characters selected from a broad range of social classes and conditions. It is also vast in chronological scope as it covers several 18th century decades in the lives of the ...

Losing Nelson

31 reviews
Barry Unsworth

Nan A. Talese, 1999

Marvellous!!!
I had studied the Napoleonic Wars for a long time before reading Unsworth's book and I thought that I had a good idea of the fighting conditions and the psychology of that period. "Losing Nelson" proved me wrong and opened widely in front of my eyes a wonderful history of a facinating personality. Unsworth uses his main hero, problematic Charles Cleasby, as a fanatical admirer of lord Nelson and ...

The Ruby in Her Navel: A Novel

13 reviews
Barry Unsworth

W. W. Norton, 2007

Europe revisited, reinterpreted
A Ruby in Her Navel is yet another superb historical novel by Barry Unsworth. By his phenomenal standards, this book might at first appear somewhat one-paced, even one-dimensional, with its action set firmly in the place and time of its main character, Thurston Beauchamp, a young man in the service of King Roger of Sicily in the twelfth century. But if A Ruby in Her Navel might lack the immediacy ...

After Hannibal

13 reviews
Barry Unsworth

Penguin Books Ltd, 1997

Thoughtful look at the human condition
and 'Ugly Englishman' as opposed to Americans who are unusually kind and trusting in this book about several couples trying to work through the good offices of an Italian lawyer trying to help them with problems caused by greedy contractors, crazy neighbors etc.. I found all the little stories interesting except for the one about the professor Monti where Unsworth included maybe a little too much ...

SUGAR AND RUM

4 reviews
BARRY UNSWORTH

HAMISH HAMILTON, 1988

How to deal with writer's block
"Sugar and Rum" is my first encounter with Barry Unsworth's work, and it's a nice surprise. It is tightly plotted and features a wide assortment of interesting and eccentric characters, but it is also somewhat dissonant and disturbing in the way it makes a crude, if well-meaning, statement about economic reform. Clive Benson is a 63-year-old author who has had a semi-successful career ...

The Songs of the Kings: A Novel

22 reviews
Barry Unsworth

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

Yes, this is fun
And it should be read with that in mind. Anyone looking for traditionally classical fiction will find something different here. Unsworth isn't trying to convince anyone that he's writing this with historical accuracy, with true dialogue of the times, with a complete honoring of the ancient myth. I'd argue that no writers on classical subjects can ever achieve those things, so best have fun with ...

The Rage of the Vulture (Norton Paperback Fiction)

9 reviews
Barry Unsworth

W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Powerful, disturbing and totally absorbing.
This novelist's themes are invariably unusual and gripping, reminiscent in some ways of Joseph Conrad in their relentless - and uncomfortable - exploration of the darker recesses of the human spirit. "The Rage of the Vulture" is set in the false dawn of the Young Turk revolution that promised so much, as it swept away the tyranny of tyranny of Abdul Hamid and which offered a brief glimpse of ...

Mooncranker's Gift

3 reviews
Barry Unsworth

Penguin Books, 1977

Mooncranker casts a spell, reels us in, and never lets go!
With Mooncranker's Gift, Unsworth creates a haunting, exotic, and ultimately erotic climate in which purity and corruption are engaged inextricably in simultaneous battles for the souls of men and women. Farnaby first meets the philosopher Mooncranker when Farnaby is a thirteen-year-old adolescent living ...

Stone Virgin

6 reviews
Barry Unsworth

W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Venice, Art, Passion all in one book
A great web of stories that makes you really think of the power that people exert over others. Especially the power of this stone virgin and how she affected (affects) those who come in contact with her. Will history continue to repeat itself? Beautifully written.

The Partnership

1 review
Barry Unsworth

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

An early work, which might have dated a little
The Partnership was Barry Unsworth's first novel and feels rather different in both style and content from most of his other books. It deals with a business arrangement, and therefore relationship of sorts between Foley and Moss. They design and manufacture plaster pixies for the tourist trade in a Cornish seaside village. There's a division of labour between them and as the book progresses, ...

Morality Play. Mit Materialien. (Lernmaterialien)
Barry Unsworth

Cornelsen, 1999

Typhoon and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)

2 reviews
Joseph Conrad

Modern Library, 2003

No, not " The Perfect Storm" -- Better
Typhoon and Other Short Stories -By Joseph Conrad ***** "She seemed, indeed, to have been used as a running target for the secondary batteries of a cruiser. A hail of minor shells could not have given her upper works a more broken, torn, and devastated aspect; and she had about her the worn, weary air of ships coming from the far ends of the world - and indeed with truth, for in her short ...

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