Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Verlag: George Newnes Ltd., 1896

Beschreibung

In good condition. Minor wear to extremities. Rubbing to corners, hinges. Spine extremes are lightly rounded from shelf wear. Slight soiling to cloth s surface. Old hand ownership dated 1896 on front flyleaf. Interior lightly toned with nominal foxing. Free of markings. Slightly shaken mid-gutter. Binding intact. Please see photos. 1st edition. 7,500 copies were published on 15th February, 1896 priced 6/- Brigadier Gerard is the comedic hero of a series of seventeen historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier 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. These stories were originally published in the Strand Magazine between December 1894 and September 1903. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLI1896CKLM

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Verlag: George Newnes Ltd.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1896

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition