The Adventures of Gerard
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781595404060 (1595404066)
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: 1st World Library
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Humor,
Funny,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Military,
France,
Short Stories
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11247Opening: 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 f...
At Waterloo, although, in a sense, I was present, I was unable to fight, and the enemy was victorious. It is not for me to say that there is a connection between these two things. You know me too well, my friends, to imagine that I would make such a claim. But it gives matter for thought, and some h...
What do you get if you take Flashman, remove the streak of yellow from his back and make at least some of the adventures ones entered into knowingly by the participant? Why, you get Brigadier Etienne Gerard, of course! Gerard is a creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, sadly languishing in the shadows with...
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