P. C. Wren: Adventure Novels & Tales From the Foreign Legion (eBook)

The Wages of Virtue, Cupid in Africa, Snake and Sword, Driftwood Spars…

P. C. Wren (Autor)

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2023
930 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-633958338-2 (EAN)

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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. His novels and short stories mostly deal with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion. Table of Contents: The Novels SNAKE AND SWORD THE WAGES OF VIRTUE DRIFTWOOD SPARS CUPID IN AFRICA (The Baking of Bertram in Love and War) Short Stories STEPSONS OF FRANCE Ten little Legionaries À la Ninon de L'Enclos An Officer and—a Liar The Dead Hand The Gift The Deserter Five Minutes "Here are Ladies" The MacSnorrt "Belzébuth" The Quest "Vengeance is Mine..." Sermons in Stones Moonshine The Coward of the Legion Mahdev Rao The Merry Liars

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2023
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• Schlagworte: adventure fiction • Africa setting • Alexandre Dumas • Colonial soldiering • Edgar Wallace • Ernest Hemingway • Evan McGorman • foreign legion • historical accuracy • Into the wild • Jack London • Joseph Conrad • military life • P. C. Wren • Robert Louis Stevenson • Romanticized accounts • Rudyard Kipling • short stories collection • Soldier's experiences • the english patient