Exploits of Brigadier Gerard: The complete Brigadier Gerard, the adventures of Brigadier Gerard

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

ISBN 10: 1847679196 / ISBN 13: 9781847679192

Published by Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2010

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Very good, paperback, 212 pp., 13x19x2,8 Edited and introduced by Owen Dudley Edwards, letterbox mail.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploits of Brigadier Gerard: The complete Brigadier Gerard, the adventures of Brigadier Gerard
• Publisher: Canongate Books, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847679196
• ISBN 13: 9781847679192
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Mon Dieu! The extraordinary, sabre-rattling adventures of Gerard, a young French cavalry officer in the time of the Napoleonic wars, introduce a hero who will be adored by fans of Flashman and Sherlock Holmes alike. Gathered here in one edition are both volumes of Conan Doyle's much loved
tales, which will delight modern readers with their absurdist humour, infectious warmth and swash-buckling energy.

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh. Educated by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst, Doyle entered the medical school at Edinburgh University in 1876, working as a doctor's assistant at times to help pay the fees. He graduated in 1881 and, after Greenland and African voyages as a ship's doctor, went into practice at Southsea, Portsmouth.

Conan Doyle had started to write while he was a medical student, and at twenty he had a story published in Chamber's journal. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887), and from 1891 he featured regularly in stories for the Strand Magazine.

To replace Holmes, Conan Doyle created Etienne Gerard, a young French cavalry officer from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, whose memoirs were collected as The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) and its sequel, Adventures of Gerard.

Knighted in 1902, Conan Doyle produced more than 60 books in the course of his career, including songs, poetry and historical fiction in the spirit of Scott. But his greatest literary achievement lay in his short stories, unrivalled in the mingling of character, action and atmosphere, whether Holmesian or Gerardine.