The Complete Brigadier Gerard: Stories

The Complete Brigadier Gerard: Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Brigadier Gerard: Stories

The Complete Brigadier Gerard: Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Overview

These charming adventures of the 19th century French brigadier by the creator of Sherlock Holms are “unjustly forgotten tales by a great master” (Michael Chabon).
 
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his immortal character Sherlock Holmes,
his tales of comic adventure featuring Brigadier Etienne Gerard, a French cavalry officer in the tine of the Napoleonic Wars, were equally beloved in their day. An old man who has retired in Paris, Gerard now recounts his escapades of younger days. In Napoleon’s service, he fights battles, breaks hearts, and confounds the English all across Europe. This volume collects all of Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard stories, originally published in The Strand Magazine between 1894 and 1903.
 
In The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories “you will find adventure, action, romance, love and self-sacrifice, hair's-breadth escape and reckless courage, gallantry, panache and a droll, backhand humor that rivals that of P.G. Wodehouse. You will also find yourself, even more than with the celebrated stories of Holmes and Watson, in the hands of an indisputable artist. For more than any other adventure stories I know, these stories have a power to move the reader… unjustly forgotten tales by a great master" (Michael Chabon for NPR's You Must Read This).
 
"The Brigadier Gerard stories display all the narrative gusto of Doyle's more famous Sherlock Holmes, together with an irresistible warmth and humor."—Philip Pullman

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781847674562
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: 01/16/2020
Series: Canongate Classics , #57
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 417
Sales rank: 355,860
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) practiced medicine in the resort town of Southsea, England, and wrote stories while waiting for his patients to arrive. In 1886, he created two of the greatest fictional characters of all time: the detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Watson. Over the course of four novels and fifty-six short stories, Conan Doyle set a standard for crime fiction that has yet to be surpassed.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

What People are Saying About This

John Le Carre

Conan Doyle for thrust and instant atmosphere.

Winston Churchill

Of course I read every Sherlock Holmes story, but the work I like even more than the detective stories is [Conan Doyle's] great historical fiction...

Julian Symons

Brigadier Gerard is, after Holmes and Watson, Conan Doyle's most successful literary creation.

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