Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442945788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
William Makepeace Thackeray's The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan (1838) is a satirical novel about Anglo-Indian culture and life. The main character and narrator, Major Gahagan, is serving in India with the British Army. The story tells his adventures and portrays the various battles in which he single-handedly fights against entire armies of rampaging natives and defeats, even killing one hundred and thirty four elephants with a single shot.