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From: Evening Times
Date: 20050730
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ARTHUR & GEORGE

Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape, pounds-17.99)

BOTH Arthur Conan Doyle, much in the news at the moment, and George Edjali grew up in Victorian Britain. But that was all they had in common.

Their lives, characters and experiences were very different.

Arthur, the son of a mother he worshipped and a drunken father who died in an asylum, grew up in genteel poverty in Edinburgh, trained as a doctor, and became the most famous novelist of his day as the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

George, the son of a Parsee vicar and his Scottish wife, was an introverted loner and the target of ...

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