The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories (Canongate Classic) - Softcover

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862415349 ISBN 13: 9780862415341

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2001

Synopsis

A complete collection of the Brigadier Etienne Gerard stories by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the time of Napoleon and his followers, and the awakened nationalisms of the peoples who they enraged. The book includes a forgotten precusor to the stories called A Foreign Office Romance.

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Review:

"The Brigadier Gerard stories display all the narrative gusto of Doyle's more famous Sherlock Holmes, together with an irresistible warmth and humour. The Brigadier himself, bristling with valour and self-regard, is the most preposterous and delightful of companions." (Philip Pullman)

"Of course I read every Sherlock Holmes story, but the works I like even more than the detective stories are his great historical stories." (Winston Churchill)

"Conan Doyle for thrust and instant atmosphere." (John le Carré)

"Brigadier Gerard is, after Holmes and Watson, Conan Doyle's most successful literary creation." (Julian Symons)

"Whether rescuing damsels in destress or duelling with adversaries, Gerard is an utterly preposterous hero, and brave to the point of stupidity in these irresistible swashbucklers." (Tatler)

Book Description:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant, swashbuckling classic, now reissued

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0862415349
• ISBN 13: 9780862415341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Edwards Owen Dudley