Arthur & George Paperback by Julian Barnes

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2006-10-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 448 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679314189
• Item Weight: 362.88 grams
• Dimensions: 20.14 x 13.41 x 2.87 cm

National Bestseller
Finalist for the Booker Prize
A Globe and Mail Best Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the 21st Century

From the Booker Award-winning writer comes a true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery . . .

Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife. Meanwhile, George remains in hard-working obscurity, struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry. But as the new century begins, they’re brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.

Written with a mixture of intense research and vivid imagination, Arthur & George is a masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all, it’s a profound and witty meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove.

About the Author

JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-five previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur, and in 2021 the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.