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Now playing: Something to Declare

Now playing: Something to Declare

By Julian Barnes · narrated by Simon Vance

Runtime09:36:56
Parts18
Spoken inEnglish
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18 parts
  1. 1 . Preface 00:21:55
  2. 2 . An Englishman Abroad 00:28:40
  3. 3 . Spending Their Deaths on Holiday 00:31:41
  4. 4 . The Promises of Their Ordination 00:22:22
  5. 5 . The Land Without Brussels Sprouts 00:24:46
  6. 6 . Tour de France 1907 00:26:38
  7. 7 . Tour de France 2000 00:41:48
  8. 8 . The Pouncer 00:16:34
  9. 9 . French Letters 01:09:59
  10. 10 . Flaubert's Death-Masks 00:50:54
  11. 11 . Not Drowning but Waving꞉ The Case of Louise Colet 00:43:01
  12. 12 . Drinking Ink 00:31:11
  13. 13 . Two Moles 00:07:56
  14. 14 . Consolation v. Desolation 00:38:56
  15. 15 . Tail-Flaying 00:27:50
  16. 16 . The Cost of Conscientious Literature 00:32:43
  17. 17 . Faithful Betrayal 00:34:58
  18. 18 . Justin꞉ A Small Major Character 00:25:02

Ranked for listeners who want the whole story: Something to Declare in misc. non-fiction, read by Simon Vance.

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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