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Quite unlike anything I've ever read. Part intriguing biography, partly recounting a "legal miscarriage". A "historical footnote" is highlighted from a most unusual perspective. Highly enjoyable read. The unfolding of the legal case alone made an 18 km run go by in a whiffy. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, slightly bored with his fame and fortune, takes up the case of wrongfully convicted George Edalji due to willful incompetence and racist attitudes towards Anglo-Indians. Set against the personal lives of both men as they reflect both their idiosyncrasies and the late Victorian / early Edwardian era. Musings on the nature of fame, how a person lives up to his own view of themselves, of being out of step with one’s time and also a product of it. Elegantly written, generally holds interest but not a second read. Characters expertly drawn, one truly feels they are real people, that you’ve met them. Slice of life between Victorian and Edwardian England, no surprises but compassionately examined. I’m not a Sherlock Holmes fan nor read the true crime genre so of limited interest. Good turn of phrases, JB insights but nothing significant. Satisfying and well done, not exceptional. This book came highly recommended and did not disappoint. I was unaware of it's subject matter but found it intriguing as I knew little about the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle other than as an author of classic books. However it was the character of George that really drew me in to the story. It is narrated in the 3rd person, alternating between the lives of Arthur and George and told in a sequential manner until they meet as adults. Their meeting comes at Arthur's behest as he has learned of the injustices perpetrated on George by the legal system of Britain. George is a quiet, hardworking young lawyer of Indian /Scottish ancestry and was raised in a vicarage in a loving home. He has been charged and served time in prison for the gross mutilation of an animal. Even Sir Arthur can see the unlikeliness of George having perpetrated this crime and he sets out to clear George's name. To these ends he dons his Sherlock Holmes hat and begins his campaign for justice.
Barnes’s suave, elegant prose — alive here with precision, irony and humaneness — has never been used better than in this extraordinary true-life tale, which is as terrifically told as any by its hero Conan Doyle himself. For all the numerous retellings of Conan Doyle's life, it is hard to imagine that Barnes's semi-fictional version could be bettered in texture or acuity. In his elegant mini-chapters, he unpacks the writer's extraordinary rites of passage: his famous failure as an ophthalmologist; his work on a whaling ship; his sporting prowess - batting for the MCC, skiing Alpine passes; his heroism in the Boer War. Ha l'adattamentoPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
A Great Wyrley, un piccolo villaggio inglese, qualcuno uccide cavalli e bestiame e scrive lettere anonime. Annunciando il sacrificio di venti giovinette. Bisogna trovare un colpevole, e George Edalji, avvocato, figlio del parroco, è il principale sospetto. Forse perché è diverso? Suo padre è un parsi, arrivato dall'India e convertito all'anglicanesimo. George è condannato. La campagna che proclama la sua innocenza giunge però alle orecchie di Arthur Conan Doyle, che decide di indagare sul caso. Arthur è il contrario del grigio George, che vuole solo essere inglese e che credendo nella legge si rassegna a patire anni di lavori forzati. Arthur è uno scrittore famoso, un uomo moderno, sportivo e dalla mente aperta, attratto dallo spiritismo. Non sarà Sherlock Holmes a riabilitare George, ma il maturo e stanco Sir Conan Doyle, che giocando la parte dell'investigatore trarrà dalle circostanze anche la forza per ricominciare a vivere. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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