The complete Brigadier Gerard
(2011)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2011
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781420940992 (electronic bk.) MWT11932731, 1420940996 (electronic bk.) 11932731
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"The Complete Brigadier Gerard" is a series of comic short stories with Brigadier Gerard as the hero. As a hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars, Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity-he is utterly convinced he is the bravest soldier, most accomplished horseman and the best and most gallant lover in all France. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain and uncomprehending Frenchman, was able to satirize both the stereotypical English view of the French, and by presenting them from Gerard's point of view, English manners and attitudes
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