Arthur George by Barnes, Julian and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru · Arthur George. by Julian Barnes. Jonathan Cape £, pp Julian Barnes has always fancied a detective yarn. In the s, he used to have a go at them himself, under the pseudonym of Dan Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. About Arthur George. As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife–their fates become inextricably Pages:
In some ways, Arthur George is a kind of parable: the ophthalmologist lending his powers of observation to the near-blind, but if Barnes has a theme beyond the excavation of the gripping mystery at his novel's heart, it is the nature of Englishness." - Tim Adams, The Observer. Written by Julian Barnes. Julian Barnes' novel, based on a real events, traces the intersecting lives of an obscure solicitor and the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late 19th-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur George, by Julian Barnes A secret mystery of history. Andrew Taylor. Friday 15 July Arthur and George - on the face of it, they made an odd pair. By , Sherlock Holmes.
Table of Contents Title Page Dedication ONE Beginnings TWO Beginning with an Ending THREE Ending with a Beginning FOUR Endings Author’s Note Also by. Julian Barnes called it "a contemporary novel set in the past" and the book does not aim to stick closely to the historical record at every point. Characters in Arthur George. George Edalji, solicitor in Birmingham; Charlotte Edalji née Stoneham, George's mother; Shapurji Edalji, George's father, vicar of Great Wyrley; Maud Edalji, George's. Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize - Flaubert's Parrot (), England, England (), and Arthur George (), and won the prize for The Sense of an Ending (). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
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