Iain Pears

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January 01, 1955 in Coventry, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Arts & Photography, Mystery & Thrillers

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Iain Pears is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and US. In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University. His well-known novel series features Jonathan Argyll, art historian, though international fame first arrived with his best selling book An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998), which was translated into several languages. Pears currently lives with his wife and children in Oxford.
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Books by Iain Pears

Average rating: 3.72 · 13,187 ratings · 1,561 reviews · 13 distinct works

	An Instance of the Fingerpost 3.85 avg rating — 6,229 ratings — published 1997 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Stone's Fall 3.79 avg rating — 1,794 ratings — published 2009 — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Dream of Scipio 3.62 avg rating — 1,400 ratings — published 2002 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Raphael Affair 3.45 avg rating — 853 ratings — published 1990 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Portrait 3.39 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Titian Committee (Jonathan Argyll, #2) 3.52 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Bernini Bust (Jonathan Argyll, #3) 3.56 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Giotto's Hand (Jonathan Argyll, #5) 3.54 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Immaculate Deception (Jonathan Argyll, #7) 3.50 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Death and Restoration (Jonathan Argyll, #6) 3.56 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 1996 — 13 editions	My rating:

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Series by Iain Pears

Jonathan Argyll Art Mystery (7 books)
by Iain Pears

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“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

tags: aspirations , contentment , desires , dreams , longing

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“Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

tags: death , life

12 people liked it

“Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

tags: abilities , dialectics , education , greatness , hypatia-of-alexandria , knowledge , learning , murder , philosophers , skills , superiority , suppression , women

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