The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
417 pages
|Published: 1 Feb 1896
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ISBN: 9780940322738
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Publication date: 28 April 2001
Description
Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new series of tales on a very different theme. Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army—recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Brigadier's wonderful comic adventures, long established in the affections of Conan Doyle's admirers as second only to those of the incomparable Holmes, are sure to find new devotees among the ardent fans of such writers as Patrick O'Brian and George MacDonald Fraser.
