The name of the first historical novel in Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series. The epoch is the same as that in the C.S. Forrester Hornblower novels and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. Masterpiece Theater has brought filmed adaptations of Richard Sharpe stories to public television, and last Sunday night we watched a re-run of one of them. This provoked me to the downtown library, and I discovered an entire bookshelf of Cornwell's books.
The particular settings are actual British battles and the events surrounding them. In my edition of Sharpe's Tiger, the author writes a "Historical Note," where he describes how his narrative differs or is similar to what historians record. He also commends two histories of Wellington, who appears as a young colonel in this book: Longford's Wellington, the Years of the Sword, and Weller's Wellington in India.
Sharpe's Tiger whetted my appetite, and I'm going back for more.
2 comments:
Kells and I read this entire series. We loved it!
I thought about you and Kellsey as I wrote this post, and there you are: you've read the whole series. I thought that Sean Bean was perfect for the part of Sharpe in the Masterpiece Theater adaptations.
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