Beyond the City [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir (Author), Shelly Frasier (Narrator)

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Publication Date: February 1, 2001

Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside "rank pirate" is linked somehow to one of the neighbors. Who could it be? In this work Conan Doyle exhibits the practiced subtlety and complexity for which he has become so well know.

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About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is world famous for the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all of which are still in print today.

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• Audio CD
• Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged edition (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400130166
• ISBN-13: 978-1400130160
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,117,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Classically Boring, May 22, 2011

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This review is from: Beyond the City (Paperback)

One thing I love about my Kindle and rise of the e-books is that so many classics are free. Otherwise, I never would have bought this book. Actually, I never even heard of it. The freeness made it very appealing.


It is about a suburb of London where three families converge. The three have a variety of problems that only seem to happen in Victorian England--bad brother who scams family members for money and then does a physical attack for revenge, the 'new' game of tennis, the launch of women's rights, and other issues that is so "England".

It was a cute and short story but not one I would ever want to pay for! If you're reading the classics, stick with other English authors and if you want Doyle, then stick with his Holmes stories. Cute, but that's about it.