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The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) is a series of stories about the life of a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard is convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, and most skilled horseman. Doyle satirizes the conventional English view of the French as well as the English manners and attitudes.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is one of many wonderful historical stories about Brigadier Gerard, an offi cer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the bravest soldier, and one of the most gallant lovers in France.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

You do very well my friends to treat me with some little reverence for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old grey-moustached officer whom you see eating his omelette or draining his glass but it is a fragment of history.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Annotated)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 137

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Annotated)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, 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 uncompre...

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Illustrated
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Illustrated

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (輕騎兵傑拉德的英勇傳奇)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 975

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (輕騎兵傑拉德的英勇傳奇)

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim's Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library

Red Classics Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 411

Red Classics Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-05-29
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

"The 17 stories collected here follow the title character, a swaggering soldier in Napoleon's army, famous for his bravery on the field of battle and his romantic forays with women."--Amazon.com.

The Complete Brigadier Gerard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

The Complete Brigadier Gerard

Originally published as a Canongate Classic: Edinburgh: Canongate, 1995.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. Illustrated edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. Illustrated edition

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, 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. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 813

The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature

The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Canadian literary studies. Including historical and contemporary analysis, this volume is an essential text that maps the field over the almost 200 years of its existence across a range of genres from slave narratives to prose fiction, poetry, theatre, and dub and spoken word. It presents Black Canadian literature as encompassing a diverse set of viewpoints, approaches, and practices, touching every aspect of Canadian territory and life, and as deeply influencing debates and understandings of Black peoples far beyond its borders. This Handbook employs...