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Iain Pears

Born

in Coventry, The United Kingdom

August 08, 1955

Genre

Fiction, Art, Mystery

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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: 3.84 · 62,377 ratings · 5,781 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors

	An Instance of the Fingerpost 3.94 avg rating — 27,086 ratings — published 1997 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stone's Fall 3.87 avg rating — 8,743 ratings — published 2009 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arcadia 3.94 avg rating — 6,344 ratings — published 2015 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream of Scipio 3.76 avg rating — 4,519 ratings — published 2002 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raphael Affair (Jonathan Argyll, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 3,893 ratings — published 1990 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Portrait 3.48 avg rating — 2,006 ratings — published 2004 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Titian Committee (Jonathan Argyll, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 1,866 ratings — published 1991 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Immaculate Deception (Jonathan Argyll, #7) 3.67 avg rating — 1,484 ratings — published 2000 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bernini Bust (Jonathan Argyll, #3) 3.63 avg rating — 1,453 ratings — published 1992 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Judgement (Jonathan Argyll, #4) 3.73 avg rating — 1,354 ratings — published 1993 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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“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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“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

tags: blame, civilization, cowardice, denunciation, deportation, evil, genocide, guilt, hitler, knowledge, nazis, personal-responsibility, responsibility, willful-ignorance

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Time to vote for our April read! Mystery/Thriller is the genre that won out in the poll. Last day to vote will be Saturday, March 8. Happy voting!

The Eight

Katherine Neville

3 votes, 50.0%

Under the Snow

Kerstin Ekman

2 votes, 33.3%

Lake of Sorrows

Erin Hart

1 vote, 16.7%

The Angel of Darkness

Caleb Carr

0 votes, 0.0%

The Bottoms

Joe R. Lansdale

0 votes, 0.0%

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears

0 votes, 0.0%

A Density of Souls

Christopher Rice

0 votes, 0.0%

6 total votes

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