The Complete Brigadier Gerard
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard stories surely constitute the finest series of historical short stories in literature, mingling the comedy and the tragedy, the pathos and the irony, or, in Napoleon's phrase, the sublime and the ridiculous. In this book, Arthur Conan Doyle created a hero...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard stories surely constitute the finest series of historical short stories in literature, mingling the comedy and the tragedy, the pathos and the irony, or, in Napoleon's phrase, the sublime and the ridiculous. In this book, Arthur Conan Doyle created a hero worthy to take his place in the great line stretching from Homer's Odysseus to George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman, nearest of all perhaps to Stevenson's Allan Breck and Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781847679192 (1847679196)
ASIN: 9781847679192
Publish date: 01-09-2011
Publisher: Canongate UK
Edition language: English
The Brigadier Gerard may be one of A.C. Doyle's most fully realized characters. Unlike Holmes, who, delightful as he is, is two dimensional at best, the Brigadier is a fully fleshed out man with all of the baggage that goes along with it. As he sits in his cafe surrounded by friends sipping wine, ...
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