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Of love and sleuthing; Arthur Conan Doyle and a true crime in Victorian England.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
The Washington Times
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January 15, 2006
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Once again, and splendidly, Julian Barnes turns to the life of a great writer to shape a novel.
The Arthur of "Arthur and George," is the toweringly humane Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The George is one George Edalji, a dark-skinned solicitor who, in 1903, was falsely accused of a series of horrendous animal slashings in a farming village north of Staffordshire.
Using letters and newspapers of the time, government reports and court proceedings along with Conan Doyle's own writings, Mr. Barnes imagines the ...
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