Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

✍ Scribed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Book ID: 108974576
• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Library Journal

Conan Doyle is another one of those guys who wrote a ton of stuff but who is remembered now only for his Holmes/Watson mysteries. The 17 stories collected here follow the title character, a swaggering soldier in Napoleon's army famous for his bravery on the field of battle and his romantic forays with women. If historical adventure circulates in your library, throw this into the mix.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"In its pages you will find adventure, action, romance, love and self-sacrifice, hair's-breadth escape and reckless courage, gallantry, panache and a droll, backhand humor that rivals that of P.G. Wodehouse. You will also find yourself, even more than with the celebrated stories of Holmes and Watson, in the hands of an indisputable artist. For more than any other adventure stories I know, these stories have a power to move the reader." — Michael Chabon on NPR's "You Must Read This"

"…One of the cleverest of Conan Doyle’s lighter works, full of spirit, ingenuity, and drollery." — _The New York Times
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"Brigadier Gerard is, after Holmes and Watson, Conan Doyle’s most successful literary creation." — Julian Symons