| The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Illustrated Contributor(s): Doyle, Arthur Conan (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798703013144 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.6 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Brigadier Gerard is the comedic hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady.Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and - by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view - English manners and attitudes. |