The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (CD)
The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
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- Contributor:
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Publisher:
- NAXOS AUDIO BOOKS, 2011
- ISBN-13:
- 9781843794479
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2011
- Release date:
- 15.2.2011
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With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boast fulness or his enormous vanity.
Gerard is Conan Doyle’s most lovable character. At times hilarious, at time touching, these stories are amongst Conan Doyle’s most popular.
Short description
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had a great talent for creating memorable characters. The hero of The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard is one of his most ingenious inventions, brought to life, here, with wicked humor by Rupert Degas. Preposterously vain and yet endearing, Brigadier Gerard makes for a tremendously fun companion as he relives the adventures of his military career fighting in the Napoleonic campaigns. Crediting himself with unparalleled military prowess and irresistible powers of seduction, Gerard goes as far as to suggest that his absence from the Battle of Waterloo was the reason for Napoleon's defeat!
Biography
Arthur Conan Doyle wurde 1859 im schottischen Edinburgh geboren. Seine Eltern waren beide strenge Katholiken, daher war es nicht verwunderlich, daß ihr Sohn eine Jesuitenschule besuchen mußte. Später studierte Doyle in Edinburgh Medizin und heiratete 1884 Louise Hawkins. Bis 1891 arbeitete er als Arzt in Hampshire. Danach widmete er sich ausschließlich dem Schreiben.§Während des Südafrikanischen Krieges (1899 bis 1902) diente er als Arzt in einem Feldlazarett. Im Jahr 1902 wurde er zum Ritter geschlagen. Nach dem Tod seines Sohnes, der den Folge einer Kriegsverletzung erlag, beschäftigte er sich mit okkultistischen Studien. Arthur Conan Doyle starb am 7. Juli 1930 in seinem Haus in Windlesham, Sussex.§1887 schuf er den wohl berühmtesten Detektiv der Weltliteratur: Sherlock Holmes, den Meister des rationell-analytischen Denkens. Die Figur Holmes überschattete Doyles literarisches Schaffen derart, dass der Autor seinen Protagonisten sterben ließ - und ihn knapp zehn Jahre später wiederauferstehen lassen musste: zu groß war die Popularität von Holmes und seinem Partner Dr. Watson.Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Part One
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2 It must be confessed, however?
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3 Suchet's head-quarters at that time?
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4 'Have you got him?' asked a voice, in Italian.
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5 I shrank back, and in an instant my pursuers were on me.
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6 They advanced upon me?
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7 It was a long time in coming?
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8 The young man who had been pleading?
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9 'You must not care, Etienne.'
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10 He shook me by the shoulder?
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11 How The Brigadier Captured Saragossa
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12 So far I admit that I was wrong?
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13 'Your request is unusual,' said Major Olivier?
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14 This was a cheerful beginning.
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15 'It is an easy tree to climb,' said he.
