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Arthur and George
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh; George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age; George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.
George Edjali's father is Indian, his mother Scottish. When the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. They appeal to the police, to no less than the Chief Constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect George of being the letters' author. Then someone starts slashing horses and livestock. Again the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof Birmingham solicitor. He is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' hard labour.
Arthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of the world's greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in love for 10 years with the woman who was to become his second) when he hears about the Edjali case. Incensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear George's name. With a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner lives of these two very different men. The reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately in love with another woman.
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- Mark
- 12-11-2018
Highly interesting snippet of history
This is a nice quick read that sheds some light on a rather interesting historical event and on the injustice of the British Legal system during Doyle's era.
#Cynical
#tagsgiving #sweepstakes
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- LitLover
- 19-02-2016
Well-told unknown story
What did you like best about this story?
The structure of the book: Arthur's & Geo's stories told chronologically but separately until their stories--& their lives--intersect.
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- Mary Carnegie
- 07-08-2016
Well written, intriguing story.
It only gets 4* overall because it is abridged. A good performance - it's difficult to pull off middle-class Edinburgh voices without sounding music hall comic, and the local Birmingham/Staffordshire accents sound snide and sinister, as their contributions to the tale would merit.
It is indeed a very English Dreyfus Affair, though fortunately Edalji "only" suffers 3 years hard labour, not solitary confinement on Devil's Island!!
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- Scribbler@10
- 23-05-2016
Love this book by Julian Barnes.
Fascinating research made an astonishing story which enthralled. An in-depth look into the British legal system shows how little attitudes change over centuries. Ignited my interest in Sherlock Holmes mystery books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story lends itself to adaptation too. I saw the play at the Birmingham Rep. a few years ago.
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