Arthur and George

Author(s): Julian Barnes

Literary Fiction

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. 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 that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove.


Product Information

A brilliant novel that will take Julian Barnes sales to a new level: his most accessible, most heartfelt novel ever.

Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006 and IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007.

General Fields

  • : 9780099492733
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.41
  • : May 2006
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 32mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Julian Barnes
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : en
  • : very good
  • : 512