The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard

Conan Doyle, Arthur

ISBN 10: 0755106539 / ISBN 13: 9780755106530

Published by House of Stratus, 2001

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard
• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755106539
• ISBN 13: 9780755106530
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 340.2 grams

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Synopsis

From Naples to Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon and Moscow, Etienne Gerard, a dashing brigadier in Napoleon’s Grand Army, recounts his exploits and adventures in the heady days of nineteenth-century Europe. A thoroughgoing hero, brave and witty to boot, he is embroiled in a vast array of scrapes and skirmishes, battles and capture from which he always emerges smiling and unscathed. 'The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard' is surely one of the finest series of historical short story collections in literature.

About the Author

The creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous literary detective. Born in Scotland, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a practising doctor when he began to write tales of mystery and adventure. In addition to the Sherlock Holmes stories, Conan Doyle also wrote the Professor Challenger adventures, and his classic, The Lost World, is one of the original fantasy novels. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh's Medical School. Graduating in 1881, he set up practice as an occultist, but as patients proved elusive he turned to writing. An important influence upon his literary career was his professor, Dr Joseph Bell, who could observe the most minute detail regarding a patient's condition. This master of deduction became the model for Conan Doyle's legendary literary creation, the detective Sherlock Holmes, introduced in ‘A Study in Scarlet’ in 1887. Conan Doyle also espoused spiritualism and devoted considerable time and effort to a campaign of support for this cause. He also wrote successfully in genres other than detective fiction. His non-fiction includes military writing on the Boer War and pamphlets on spiritualism. It is known that he felt constricted at times by the popularity of Holmes, but it is nevertheless for Sherlock Holmes and his foil, the ponderous Dr Watson that he is best remembered. As Sherlock Holmes was the first detective to solve cases by deduction rather than due to an error by the criminal, Conan Doyle can be credited with creating the modern detective novel. He was knighted in 1902 for his support of the British cause in the Boer Wars. After the death of his son in the First World War, he devoted the rest of his life to spiritualism on which he wrote and lectured.