Description |
385 pages ; 25 cm |
Summary |
"In the vast expanse of late-Victorian Britain, two boys come to life: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, in shabby genteel Edinburgh, both of them feeling at once near to and impossibly distant from the beating heart of Empire. One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years before their destinies are entwined in a mesmerizing alliance. We follow each through outrageous accusation and unrivaled success, through faith and perseverance and dogged self-recrimination, whether in the dock awaiting complete disgrace or at the height of fame while desperately in love with a woman not his wife, and gradually realize that George is half-Indian and that Arthur becomes the creator of the world's most famous detective |
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Ranging from London clubs to teeming prisons, from a lost century to the modern age, this novel is a panoramic revelation of things we thought we knew or else had no clue of, as well as a gripping exploration of what goals drive us toward whatever lies in wait - an experience resounding with issues, no less relevant today, of crime and spirituality; of identity and nationality; of what we think, what we believe and what we can prove."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Biographical fiction |
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Historical fiction |
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Mystery fiction |
Notes |
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2005 |
Subject |
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Fiction.
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Horses -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Horses -- Fiction.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
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Children of clergy -- Fiction.
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Judicial error -- Fiction.
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Horses -- Fiction.
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Horses -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
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SUBJECT |
Midlands (England) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107227
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Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Novela de misterio
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Novela histórica.
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Historical fiction.
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Novela biográfica
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Biographical fiction.
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Miscellaneous fiction
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Novela histórica
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Historical fiction.
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LC no. |
2005048771 |
ISBN |
030726310X |
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