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Arthur & George
Arthur & George
Julian Barnes (born 1946)
English editions
Written in EnglishArthur & George
Vintage · United Kingdom · 1 March 2012 · Paperback · 512 pages
Arthur & George
Jonathan Cape · United Kingdom · 7 July 2005 · 352 pages
Arthur & George
Knopf · United States · 2006
Arthur & George
Vintage · United States · 9 January 2007 · Paperback · 464 pages
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Arthur is raised in genteel poverty in Edinburgh; George grows up in a Staffordshire village, where his father is the vicar. Arthur trains as a doctor, turns to writing, invents the best-known detective of all and becomes one of the celebrities of the age, though he loves a woman he is not married to. George qualifies as a solicitor in Birmingham and leads a quiet, diligent life, struggling with an identity that people around him hold against him because of his heritage. Soon after 1900 the Great Wyrley Outrages, a case that caused a sensation in the press, bring the two men together. Drawn from real events, the novel deals with guilt and innocence, race and nationality, and with how far belief, knowledge and proof can drift apart.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom
- First published
- 2005
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
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9780224077033 (Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom)
9780307263100 (Knopf, United States)
9781400097036 (Vintage, United States)
9780099492733 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
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