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Beyond the City

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . who were still almost strangers to one another, had come together in Norwood, where, if their short day had been chequered and broken, the evening at least promised to be sweet and mellow. In person Mrs. Hay Denver was tall and stout, with a bright, round, ruddy-cheeked face still pretty, with a gracious, matronly comeliness. Her whole life was a round of devotion and of love, which was divided between her husband and her only son, Harold.

This son it was who kept them in the neighborhood of London, for the Admiral was as fond of ships and of salt water as ever, and was as happy in the sheets of a two-ton yacht as on the bridge of his sixteen-knot monitor. Had he been untied, the Devonshire or Hampshire coast would certainly have been his choice. There was Harold, however, and Harold's interests were their chief care. Harold was four-and-twenty now. Three years before he had been taken in ha. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Excellent and quite modern slice of life from around the turn of the 20th century. The characters are so rich and they drive the book. I got what I feel is a better glimpse of Conan Doyle than through Sherlock or other books that I also loved like the White Company, a rollicking (what a great review

(view spoiler)[I would never have suspected Doyle of choosing to write such a gentle romance. I half suspected that he would spring some dastardly crime on us just for a shocker, but what a wonderful surprise when instead it really was just a sweet story of friendship and loyalty. (hide spoiler)] I know you shouldn’t start out w

Funny or strange, the Romanian editor (Aldo Press) tricked me, as the cover of the book is about Sherlock Holmes and he's not part of the story.
Anyway, that's an interesting one, at least because it shows Doyle's style in a novel not involving any detective. It looks more like Charles Dickens...more

Kind of a soap opera set around 1900 in England. I'm sure there was more to the subtext than I got, but I got enough to make it interesting, even enjoyable for all Doyle's somewhat stilted style.

There was a theme of moving to the suburbs where life is better than the horrible city. A rich man's land

Focusing on the lives of three families in Victorian London, Doyle gives s fascinating insight into what life was like in the 19th century.

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