HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10-1/2（ISBN=9780679731375）

　　This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!

　　Julian Barnes was born in Leicester in 1946 and educated in London and Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, then as a journalist for the New Statesman, the Sunday Times and the Observer. He is the author of eight novels, a collection of essays, a book of short stories, and is the first Englishman to have won both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina. In 1988 he was made a Chevalier and in 1995 he became an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

1  THE STOWAWAY
2　THE  VISITORS
3　THE  WARS  OF  RELIGION
4　THE  SURVIVOR
5　SHIPWRECK
6　THE  MOUNTAIN
7　THREE  SIMPLE  STORIES
8　UPSTREAM!
　PARENTHESIS
9　PROJECT ARARAT
10　THE DREAM