The Somnambulist

Name: The Somnambulist
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Jonathan Barnes
ISBN: 9781440709302

Author: Jonathan Barnes

Narrator: John Curless

Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/27/2009

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Set amidst Victorian London's seamy, fog-shrouded underworld, Jonathan Barnes' The Somnambulist is a "superb debut [that] raises the bar for historical thrillers" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Meet Edward Moon, an illusionist and detective who operates solely with the aid of his hulking, mute sidekick. "[A] cheeky tale . salvaged from the sensationalist novels of the past three centuries."-New York Times

About Jonathan Barnes

Jonathan Barnes taught at Oxford for twenty-five years, being a Fellow first of Oriel and then of Balliol. He then spent eight years at the University of Geneva, before becoming professor of ancient philosophy at the Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many publications include The Ontological Argument; Aristotle's Posterior Analytics; Aristotle; The Complete Works of Aristotle; Truth, etc.; Method and Metaphysics: Essays in Ancient Philosophy I; with J. Annas, The Modes of Scepticism; Early Greek Philosophy; The Toils of Scepticism; The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle; and Porphyry: Introduction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peggy

I’ve been a reader all my life. I majored in English in college and grad school, and I’ve worked in bookstores since 1992, most of that as a buyer. I’m surrounded by books at home and work and I see new ones every day. It’s sometimes difficult to quantify why certain books speak to us; why we pick u......more

Goodreads review by Sandi

I really don't know what to make of this book. It was mostly weird and didn't make a whole lot of sense. Yet, the plot was fairly simple. The characters never really developed and some of the weirdest were never explained, like the guy who claimed to be living life backwards from the future to the p......more

Goodreads review by Jason

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.) Regular readers know that I am a big fan of the unique subgenre known as "steampunk," but might not kn......more

Goodreads review by Brad

I should never read the plaudits plastered on the cover of a book, nor those that litter the first few pages. I am invariably annoyed by what I find and occasionally even led astray. Luckily with John Barnes’ The Somnambulist, I was mostly faced with the former brand of upset. According to the book c......more

Goodreads review by colleen the convivial curmudgeon

2 1/2 Overall my impression of this book was 'meh'. It wasn't great... it wasn't horrible. It was just sort of there... I had high hopes for this story, being a fan of stories set in Victoriana, of Poe's and Doyle's mysteries, and of the strange and outre - but I just couldn't find myself caring all......more