Arthur & George [sound recording] / Julian Barnes.
Material type: SoundPublication details: Bath [England] : BBC Audiobooks, p2006Description: 4 sound discs (CD) (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leafletISBN: 1846071666Subject(s): Doyle, Arthur Conan Sir, 1859-1930 -- Fiction | Talking books | CDs | Horses -- Crimes against -- Fiction | Racially mixed people -- Fiction | Children of clergy -- Fiction | Judicial error -- FictionNarrator: Nigel Anthony.Summary: Arthur and George grew up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time. With a mixture of intense research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes's novel brings to life this long-forgotten case that featured Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world's greatest detective.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Abridged.
Arthur and George grew up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time. With a mixture of intense research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes's novel brings to life this long-forgotten case that featured Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world's greatest detective.
Narrator: Nigel Anthony.
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