Download or read book The Great Shadow written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1924 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Great Shadow”is a romance with an historical background of the Scottish border in the time of Napoleon, who personifies the great shadow that hung over the land and filled men's hearts with fears of an invasion. The principal figure in the tale is a young girl, wayward, impulsive, romantic, fickle, captivating, who, after having had two lovers among her fellows, runs off with a gallant Frenchman whose stories of the great world inflame her imagination. This mysterious stranger, who stays with the Scotch family for a long time, turns out to be an aide-de-camp to Napoleon, and when his chief returns from Elba he hastens to join him. The two young fellows meet him, and one of them gives him his death wound on the field of Waterloo, of which there is a graphic description from the point of view of the men who fought in the ranks.