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The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories (Canongate Classics) (Paperback)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Owen Dudley Edwards (Editor, Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (1 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0862415349
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862415341
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 101,050 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A complete collection of the Brigadier Etienne Gerard stories by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the time of Napoleon and his followers, and the awakened nationalisms of the peoples who they enraged. The book includes a forgotten precusor to the stories called "A Foreign Office Romance".

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5.0 out of 5 stars A French Flashman bigod!!, 11 April 2005
By Mr. Daniel Winfield "daniel_winfield" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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I say a French Flashman...it would probably be more appropriate to describe George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman as an English Gerard, given that this character preceded our favourite poltroon (at least GMF's version of him) by a good seventy years. Many of the features that we might attribute to Harry Flashman, we find first belonging to Etienne Gerard: the cavalry whiskers, the way with the ladies, the good looking, and dashing officer.

I have never been a huge fan of the Sherlock Holmes novels and that is indeed all I have associated Arthur Conan Doyle with until recently - what a fool I've been. Etienne Gerard, for me at least, outstrips Holmes at every turn. ACD has created in Gerard a character that by all rights should be up there with the greats of literary fiction...I would say that it is only due to the huge popularity of Sherlock Holmes that this is not the case.

It could be argued that ACD took a risk basing his hero on a Frenchman of Napoleon's army rather than on a British officer, but it works every time. The humour is there as Gerard embarks on an impromptu fox hunt with a host of British officers with ACD managing to poke fun at both the French and British in the same few sentences. This is a common theme throughout the collection and is superbly pulled off by this wonderful author. On the flip side you can really feel your self feeling sympathy - even sadness for the French during the retreat from Waterloo as Gerard narrates in emotional style.

This edition, as the title suggests contains the complete collection of Gerard short stories and is a must have for any fans of the Flashman or Sharpe novels, indeed anyone who is interested a good novel with excellent characterisations.

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5.0 out of 5 stars BRIGADIER GERARD, 24 April 2009
If Conan Doyle had not written his sherlock Holmes stories his historical works would receive more attention. They are all well researched, well written and very readable. Brigader Gerard is, by his own estimation, the bravest and most dashing of French Hussars. He is probably also the most vaingloriuos,self-opinionated but not the most intelligent of Napoleon's officers. His exploits are both exciting and amusing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It, 13 Feb 2009
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A series of short adventure stories in which Conan Doyle pokes gentle fun at his creation; a brave, loyal, chivalrous but egotistical and stupid cavalry officer in Napoleon's army. A pleasant easy read, great fun and with more humour than usual.
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