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Trapped in a loveless marriage, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tackles the case of a wrongly imprisoned man.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060115
Author:Michael Dirda

ARTHUR & GEORGE

A Novel

By Julian Barnes

Knopf. 386 pp. $24.95 The ampersand in the title gives the first clue. Julian Barnes doesn't call his Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Arthur and George, which distinctly asks us to think of two separate men, but rather Arthur & George, which implies a kind of unity composed of two different elements. Ostensibly an account of how the creator of Sherlock Holmes came to interest himself in a miscarriage of justice, the book is in fact more subtly playful than that, as one would expect from the author of Flaubert's Parrot and Talking it Over. Beneath the ...

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