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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: 3.85 · 64,465 ratings · 5,974 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	An Instance of the Fingerpost 3.94 avg rating — 27,823 ratings — published 1997 — 7 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 — 8,818 ratings — published 2009 — 43 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 — 6,470 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Dream of Scipio 3.76 avg rating — 4,603 ratings — published 2002 — 58 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) 3.58 avg rating — 4,332 ratings — published 1990	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) 3.71 avg rating — 2,208 ratings — published 1991 — 30 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 — 2,033 ratings — published 2004 — 37 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 — 1,510 ratings — published 2000 — 30 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 — 1,475 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 — 1,373 ratings — published 1993 — 40 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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“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

tags: argument, blind-faith, disagreement, discussion, doctrine, faith, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, jews, judaism, religion, shouting

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Case Histories

Kate Atkinson

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Child 44

Tom Rob Smith

1 vote, 16.7%

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears

1 vote, 16.7%

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Peter Høeg

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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

Peter Ackroyd

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The Poe Shadow

Matthew Pearl

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