Iain Pears Libros

Parte de la obra escrita en el siglo V por Manlio Hipómanes, sobre la virtud del hombre y la obligación de los sabios de preservar la civilización a través de la filosofía. Presenta el caso de otros dos hombres que a lo largo de la historia se enfrentaron al reto de salvaguardar los valores de su civilización agonizante.

Oxford. Década de los sesenta. El profesor Henry Lytten intenta escribir una nueva historia de fantasía que supere la obra de sus predecesores, J. R. R. Tolkien y C. S. Lewis. Y encuentra una confidente en su vecina Rosie, una adolescente de quince años. Un día, mientras persigue al gato del profesor, Rosie encuentra una puerta en su bodega que le llevará a un mundo idílico, conocido como Anterworld, una tierra bañada por el sol de los narradores, las profecías y los rituales. Pero ¿es este acaso un mundo real? ¿Y qué pasa si ella decide quedarse? Mientras se embarca en una aventura que puede llevarla de vuelta a casa, en un laboratorio, un científico rebelde está tratando de probar que el tiempo (pasado, presente y futuro) no existe, con consecuencias potencialmente devastadoras.

When art dealer Jonathan Argyll arrives in Los Angeles to drop off a painting, he discovers that there are a few devils loose in the City of Angels

Set against a rich historical backdrop, this novel weaves a vast and intricate mystery that showcases the author's ambition and complexity. Following the success of "An Instance of the Fingerpost," the narrative promises to engage readers with its dazzling storytelling and multifaceted plot, inviting exploration into a world filled with intrigue and depth.

Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

A novel about an Italian general who tries to prevent the theft of a painting being restored in a monastery.

When an important, politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get it back at all costs – without causing any embarrassment to the country and without paying the ransom. Put in an impossible position, she turns for help to her old mentor General Taddeo Bottando, who casts a wholly unexpected light on the crime. In the meantime, her husband, English art historian Jonathan Argyll, embarks on an investigation of his own. As a gift to Bottando, he decides to establish the provenance of a small Renaissance painting, an Immaculate Conception, currently hanging on the wall of the general's apartment. Absorbing and ingeniously plotted, The Immaculate Deception is both a fascinating art-history puzzle and a gripping murder mystery as the search for the truth uncovers shocking secrets from the past and leads Argyll and Flavia into the path of some very dangerous enemies indeed.

Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad and art historian Jonathan Argyll have charmed mystery readers around the world. Their latest case is baffling to the extreme, when clues from a Titian researcher's death by mugging point to murder -- and a criminal conspiracy...

English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad has little confidence in Jonathan's theories, Bottando's lovely assistant, Flavia di Stefano, is intrigued by the idea of a lost classic, and by Jonathan himself. But in the midst of the painting's discovery and the resultant worldwide publicity, a new chain of events is set into action. First vandalism, then murder, surround the painting. And as new facts about its true nature emerge, Bottando sends Flavia and Jonathan to investigate--little knowing that the pair will be on the run for the truth... and for their very lives.