Arthur & George
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A masterful work of literary historical fiction, Arthur & George chronicles two parallel lives — those of Arthur Conan Doyle, the celebrated creator of Sherlock Holmes, and George Edalji, a half-Indian solicitor from the English Midlands — whose fates become dramatically intertwined at the turn of the twentieth century. Julian Barnes reconstructs the true story of Edalji's wrongful conviction for a series of gruesome animal mutilations, a miscarriage of justice rooted in racial prejudice and institutional failure. With measured, elegant prose, the novel presents Conan Doyle as a man driven by a fierce sense of chivalry, who takes up George's cause and applies his own formidable powers of deduction to expose the truth. Barnes illustrates the profound ironies at the heart of the case — that the world's most famous fictional detective was needed to correct the failures of real-world justice — while also examining questions of identity, faith, and what it means to be English. Thoughtful, restrained, and deeply humane, Arthur & George stands as one of the finest examples of the biographical novel form.
Author: Julian Barnes
Format: Hardback
Published: 2005, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A masterful work of literary historical fiction, Arthur & George chronicles two parallel lives — those of Arthur Conan Doyle, the celebrated creator of Sherlock Holmes, and George Edalji, a half-Indian solicitor from the English Midlands — whose fates become dramatically intertwined at the turn of the twentieth century. Julian Barnes reconstructs the true story of Edalji's wrongful conviction for a series of gruesome animal mutilations, a miscarriage of justice rooted in racial prejudice and institutional failure. With measured, elegant prose, the novel presents Conan Doyle as a man driven by a fierce sense of chivalry, who takes up George's cause and applies his own formidable powers of deduction to expose the truth. Barnes illustrates the profound ironies at the heart of the case — that the world's most famous fictional detective was needed to correct the failures of real-world justice — while also examining questions of identity, faith, and what it means to be English. Thoughtful, restrained, and deeply humane, Arthur & George stands as one of the finest examples of the biographical novel form.