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''Arthur & George''' Author: Julian Barnes editor: Jonathan Cape The novel based on real-life events at the beginning of the previous century. The story rotates around the lives of the well-known author Arthur Conan Doyle and the less famous George Edalji. Born in the same time, one man is predetermined to be a famous writer, the other to working-class obscurity as a advocate. The son of a Parsee priest and Scotish mother, George is a stranger in the tiny English town where he lives. When a sequence of odd incidents known as the Wryley outrages occure, he is wrongly accused, leading to the improbable meeting of Arthur and George. The author of the novel, Julian Barnes, has managed to disguise a wealth of historical fact in the novel. Perfect reading with great characters and insights. |
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