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Originally Posted by issybird
I just finished Sharpe's Rifles and I was faintly dissatisfied, for the reason that makes me prefer reading books in written order, rather than according to internal chronology. It was as if the prior two books hadn't happened, as indeed they had not, since Cornwell hadn't written them yet. It especially made his relationship to the female interest rather problematic and contradictory, based on the retroactive backstory.
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two prior books? In internal chronology, there are
five books before Sharpe's Rifles.
I was willing to accept that some events in earlier novels would be only vaguely alluded to (if at all) in 'later' novels that were written first. Overall, I'm very happy that I've been reading them according to the internal chronology.