Category: Flaubert’s Parrot

“Emma Bovary’s Eyes” (Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists, 1983)

Notes on this edition: Granta: Best of Young British Novelists, issue 7 (Granta, 1983). ISSN: 0017-3231; ISBN: 0140068333. Edited by Bill Buford and distributed by Penguin Books.

First appearance of Julian Barnes’s story “Emma Bovary’s Eyes” which later appeared as a chapter in his novel Flaubert’s Parrot. The Granta version contains some textual differences from the finished novel and appears on pages 59-67.

Other authors featured in this collection include: Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Ursula Bentley, William Boyd, Buchi Emecheta, Maggie Gee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Judd, Adam Mars-Jones, Ian McEwan, Shiva Naipaul, Philip Norman, Christopher Priest, Salman Rushdie, Lisa de Terán, Clive Sinclair, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, A. N. Wilson.

Flaubert’s Parrot (Bloomsbury Classics, 1992)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Bloomsbury Classics, 1992. Pp. 308. 15.8 x 10.8 cm. ISBN: 0747513473. £10.95.

Descriptive Bibliography:

Title Page: JULIAN BARNES | [rule] | Flaubert’s | Parrot | BLOOMSBURY CLASSICS [with Bloomsbury device overlapped]

Copyright Page: First published 1984 by Jonathan Cape Ltd | Copyright © 1984 by Julian Barnes | This edition 1992 | The moral rights of the author has been asserted | Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 2 Soho Square, | London W1V 5DE | A CIP catalogue record for this | book is available from the British Library | ISBN 0 7475 1347 3 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 | Designed by Jeff Fisher | Typeset in Great Britain by Hewer Text, Edinburgh | Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, | Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Collation: 15 x 10.1 cm. Pp. [i-xii] 1-308. [i]: device. [ii]: ‘BY THE SAME AUTHOR | Metroland | Before She Met Me | Staring at the Sun | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters | Talking It Over’. [iii]: title page. [iv]: copyright page. [v]: ‘To Pat’. [vi]: blank [vii]: ‘NOTE | I am grateful to James Fenton and the | Salamander Press for permission to reprint | the lines from ‘A German Requiem’ on | page 179. The translations in this book are | by Geoffrey Braithwaite; though he would | have been lost without the impeccable | example of Francis Steegmuller. | J.B.’. [viii]: blank. [ix]: epigraph. [x]: blank. [xi]: contents. [xii]: blank. 1-308: text.

General description: Binding 15.8 x 10.8 cm. Black boards, gold blocked on spine. Cream endpapers.

Flaubert’s Parrot | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012; Everyman’s Library #348)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Pp. 449 + [11]. 21 x 13.2 cm. ISBN: 9780307961433.

This Everman’s Library edition publishes Julian Barnes’s novels Flaubert’s Parrot and A History of the World in 10½ Chapters with an introduction by Sarah Churchwell (pp. vii-xvii).

Listed as Everyman’s Library #348.

Variant: Some copies were sold by the publisher with bookplates signed by Julian Barnes, as pictured above.

福楼拜的鹦鹉 | Flaubert’s Parrot (Yilin Press, 2016; Chinese)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes [朱利安·巴恩斯]. 福楼拜的鹦鹉 | Flaubert’s Parrot. Nanjing: 译林出版社 | Yilin Press, 2016. Pp. 255 + [1]. 20.7 x 14.5 cm. Translated by 但汉松. ISBN: 9787544760720. (Chinese).

Features a promotional wrap around band, as shown.

התוכי של פלובר | Flaubert’s Parrot (Zmora-Bitan, 2005; Hebrew)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. התוכי של פלובר | Flaubert’s Parrot. Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 2005. Pp. 240. 21 x 13.5 cm. Translated by מאיר ויזלטיר. (Hebrew).

First Hebrew edition published in 1987.

Flaubertův papoušek | Flaubert’s Parrot (Odeon, 2016; Czech)

Notes on this edition: Flaubertův papoušek | Flaubert’s Parrot. Prague: Odeon, 2016. Pp. 249. 21 cm. Translated by Miloš Urban. ISBN: 9788020717153. (Czech).

Le perroquet de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot (Stock, 2000; French)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Le perroquet de Flaubert | Flaubert’s Parrot. Paris: Stock, 2000. Pp. 341 [342] + [10]. 17.9 x 11 cm. Translated by Jean Guiloineau. ISBN: 9782234052130. (French).

Series: Bibliothèque Cosmopolite

Flaubert’s Parrot (Picador, 2002)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Picador, 2002. Pp. 229 + [1]. 17.6 x 11 cm. ISBN: 0330491962.

Released as part of “Picador XXX Thirty” to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Picador imprint that launched in 1972. The front cover uses a black and white version of the photograph that appeared on the first Picador edition in 1985 and the back cover reproduces the original cover in color.

Flauberts Papagei | Flaubert’s Parrot (Haffmans Verlag, 1987; German)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flauberts Papagei | Flaubert’s Parrot. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 1987. Pp. 277 [278] + [2]. 18.5 x 11.2 cm. Translated by Michael Walter. ISBN: 3251001043. (German).

Cover illustration by Volker Kriegel.

Flaubert’s Parrot | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Petersens, 2001)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Hamburg: Petersens, 2001. Pp. 229 + [1] and 309 + [3]. 17.7 x 11 cm. ISBN: 3883891568.

This omnibus edition appears to have been printed and bound in Great Britain by Picador, but was published officially by Petersons for a foreign market. Listed as “Petersen Taschenbücher Bd. 156” on the page before the title page. The page numbering is distinct between the two novels.