Arthur & George - Booker Prize shortlist 2005. First edition, first printing

Name: Arthur & George - Booker Prize shortlist 2005. First edition, first printing
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Author: Barnes, Julian
ISBN: 9780224077828

Barnes, Julian

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Language: English

Published by London : Jonathan Cape, 2005

0224077821 / 9780224077828

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This is a fine copy of the first edition, first printing of Julian Barnes's 2005 Booker Prize shortlisted novel. It is a finely imagined account of the persecution of an innocent young man and the efforts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to rescue and rehabilitate him. The book is unread, has been carefully looked after and would properly have been described as 'As New' but for some light speckling on the top edge of the text block - see photos. It is published without a dust jacket but with incised lettering and decorative features on the mustard coloured cloth-bound cover boards. There is a wrap around band on the back cover with a photograph of the author, an outline of the characters and plot of the novel and the publisher's price (£17.99) - see photos. We have provided a dozen photos of this copy of the book and would be happy to provide more.

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Title: Arthur & George - Booker Prize shortlist 2005. First edition, first printing
Author: Barnes, Julian
Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape
Publication year: 2005
Condition: Fine
Dust jacket: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0224077821
ISBN 13: 9780224077828
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Item weight: 485 grams
Dimensions: 2.6 centimeters width by 15.3 centimeters height by 23.3 centimeters depth

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. George Edjali's father is Indian, his mother Scottish. When the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. They appeal to the police, to no less than the Chief Constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect George of being the letters' author. Then someone starts slashing horses and livestock. Again the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof Birmingham solicitor. He is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years' hard labour. Arthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of the world's greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in love for ten years with the woman who was to become his second) when he hears about the Edjali case. Incensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear George's name. With a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner lives of these two very different men. The reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately in love with another woman. This is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we know. Julian Barnes has long been recognised as one of Britain's most remarkable writers. While those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, Arthur & George will surely find him an entirely new audience.

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