Iain Pears





Iain Pears

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born
in Coventry, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1955

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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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Average rating: 3.77 · 20,418 ratings · 1,887 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors
An Instance of the Fingerpost
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 10,236 ratings — published 1997 — 31 editions
Stone's Fall
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 2,847 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions
The Dream of Scipio
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,964 ratings — published 2002 — 28 editions
The Raphael Affair (Jonatha...
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 1,241 ratings — published 1990 — 21 editions
The Portrait
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 796 ratings — published 2005 — 20 editions
The Titian Committee (Jonat...
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 706 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions
The Bernini Bust (Jonathan ...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 557 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
Giotto's Hand (Jonathan Arg...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1995 — 10 editions
The Immaculate Deception (J...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2000 — 19 editions
Death and Restoration (Jona...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 470 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions
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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

“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

“She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.”
Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio



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