Name: The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) by: Arthur Conan Doyle ( WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS ) (in English)
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Author: Wollen, W. B. ; Doyle, Arthur Conan
ISBN: 9781542667401

portada The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) by: Arthur Conan Doyle ( WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS ) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

W. B. Wollen

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

Inglés

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9781542667401

Synopsis "The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) by: Arthur Conan Doyle ( WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS ) (in English)"

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and - by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view - English manners and attitudes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (UK 1859-1930) Escritor y médico nacido en Escocia, principalmente conocido por haber creado al famosísimo personaje Sherlock Holmes, el detective más conocido de todos los tiempos, versionado para TV y cine de forma cíclica. Otra gran serie de novelas confeccionadas por Doyle fueron las protagonizadas por el profesor Challenger (El Mundo Perdido), también trasladadas a la ficción audiovisual.

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