Sharpe · Book 2
Sharpe's Gold
- Published
- 1 December 1981
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780451213419
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Gold arrived just months after Cornwell's debut Sharpe's Eagle, closing out 1981 at 256 pages and continuing Richard Sharpe's Peninsular War campaign toward Sharpe's Company. Like every book in the series, it follows the workhouse-raised soldier and his Irish friend Sergeant Patrick Harper through Cornwell's ground-level battle sequences.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Gold is book 2 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Eagle. It is followed by Sharpe's Company. See the full Sharpe reading order.
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels follow Richard Sharpe, a foundling raised in a London workhouse who enlists as a private soldier and — against every rule of the Georgian army — is commissioned into the officer ranks after saving the Duke of Wellington's life in India. From the storming of Seringapatam to the retreat to Corunna, the breaches of Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo, the charge at Salamanca, and finally the field of Waterloo itself, Sharpe fights his way across two decades of the Napoleonic Wars with a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006173144
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007805082
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007452927