Brigadier Gerard 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. Gerard tells the stories from the point of view of an old man now living in retirement in Paris. We discover that he was born in Gascony in the early 1780s (he is 25 in "How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa"). In "How
Ender's Game (series) various aspects of Ender’s Game. The book includes an introduction by Orson Scott Card, who edited "Ender's World" and answers from many fan-submitted Enderverse questions from the Smart Pop Books Website. These essays are included in the compilation: Ender's Game (series) The Ender's Game" series (often referred to as the Ender" saga and also the Enderverse) is a series of science fiction books written by American author Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel of the same title. It currently consists of sixteen novels, thirteen short stories, 47 comic