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Beau Geste (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Wren, Percival Christopher

Hoppenstand, Gary

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Group USA

A cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence — the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches a letter that links the riddle of the desert massacre to another mystery, the long-ago and far-away theft of a sapphire known as the Blue Water. It was the scandalous disappearance of the Blue Water that led to the self-exile of Beau, the oldest of the Geste brothers. John and Digby couldn't believe that Beau was a thief and refused to allow him to shoulder the blame alone. Thus all three Gestes turned up in North Africa, among the ranks of the Foreign Legion. Their story of suspense, betrayal, and bravery has inspired several movie versions and remains a favorite with readers who relish a classic adventure.

Beau Geste (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Genre Fiction

Dover Publications

Volume two of The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren, The Sinbad Novels, contains the four novels featuring the character of Sinclair Noel Brodie Dysart, whose nickname Sinbad derives from the initials of S.N.B.D. Part A contains Action and Passion and its sequel, Sinbad the Soldier. In Action and Passion, Sinbad was intended to go into the Royal Navy, but instead, after his father's suicide, has to go into the Merchant Marine. During his first voyage, on the windjammer Valkyrie, Sinbad goes from an apprentice to the captain, during a series of adventures that include a mad captain, multiple murders, mutiny, bare-knuckle boxing, sea storms, and (almost) incest. In Sinbad the Soldier, our hero and his friend Dacre decide to leave the sea. They join Her Majesty's Life Guards, a troop famous (nowadays) for being part of the "Changing of the Guard" at Buckingham Palace and other royal sites. After a couple of years as Life Guards, Sinbad and Dacre resign from the Guards and join a gunrunning venture. The gunrunning goes awry when Sinbad is captured by Arabs and sold into slavery, eventually becoming a slave to a Sultan of a remote Saharan desert kingdom. The Sultan and Sinbad, along with some of the Sultan's entourage, go to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage and to rescue the Sultan's mother, an Englishwoman who was taken captive during the failed Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.

The Sinbad Novels Part A: Action and Passion & Sinbad the Soldier (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)

Riner Publishing Company

Volume two of The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren, The Sinbad Novels, contains the four novels featuring the character of Sinclair Noel Brodie Dysart, whose nickname is Sinbad based on the initials of S.N.B.D. Part B contains Fort in the Jungle, the direct sequel to Sinbad the Soldier, and The Disappearance of General Jason, which is not a direct sequel to Fort in the Jungle and only features Sinbad as a minor, though important, character. At the end of Sinbad the Soldier, our hero, had been captured by French authorities and given the choice of prison or joining the French Foreign Legion. Instead of a North African desert Foreign Legion novel, Fort in the Jungle, has the setting of the Indo-China colonial wars of the late 1800s with the Black Flag Army. Sinbad is sent on a covert mission to a secret fort in the jungles of Vietnam. Here he has various adventures and meets the love of his life-the wife of the European advisor to the bandit army. The plot of The Disappearance of General Jason is concerned with the disappearance of a retired British army general. The story line and plot elements are quasi-science fiction in that there is a (sort of) lost race that the characters are involved with, aspects of uranium mining, and an H. G. Wells Island of Dr. Moreau element to it.

The Sinbad Novels Part B: Fort in the Jungle & The Disappearance of General Jason (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

A tale of adventure, intrigue and murder when, as a direct result of a crime in an English country house, the Geste brothers find themselves forced to flee the country and enlist in the French Foreign Legion. From the author of STORIES OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.

Beau Geste

Contemporary

Grosset&Dunlap

1925. Wren immortalized the French Foreign Legion in Beau Geste and many other novels of high adventure and romance. Contents: Part I. Major Henri de Beaujolais' Story; Of the Strange Events at Zinderneuf; and George Lawrence Takes the Story to Lady Brandon at Brandon Abbas. Part II. The Mystery of the Blue Water; Beau Gest and his Band; The Disappearance of the Blue Water; The Gay Romantics; The Desert; The Fort at Zinderneuf; A Viking's Funeral; and Ishmaelites. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 0766193594, 1417914890.

Kessinger Pub

Snake And Sword

When Colonel Matthew Devon de Warrenne, V.C., D.S.O., of the Queen's Own Bombay Lancers, pinned his Victoria Cross to the bosom of his dying wife's night-dress he was not himself. He was beside himself with grief. Afterwards he adjured the sole witness of this impulsive and emotional act, Major John Decies, never to mention his "damned theatrical folly" to any living soul. For the one thing in heaven above that Colonel de Warrenne feared, was breach of good form and stereotyped convention. And the one thing he loved was the dying woman.

Action & Adventure

Wildside Pr

Amereon Ltd

Three noble English brothers battle a sadistic sergeant, fight violent desert tribes in North Africa, and unravel the mystery of a stolen jewel.

Beau Geste (Gateway Movie Classics)

United States

Gateway Books

Percival Christopher Wren is best known as a novelist, publishing twenty-eight novels from 1912 to 1941, the most famous of which being Beau Geste (1924). The Geste Novels Part A and The Geste Novels Part B are the first of a multi-volume series, The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren. The Geste Novels Part A and The Geste Novels Part B contain the four novels that feature the Geste brothers and their friends. These novels are the well-known Beau Geste, and the lesser known direct sequels: Beau Sabreur (1926) and Beau Ideal (1927). The fourth novel, Spanish Maine (published in the United States as The Desert Heritage) was published in 1935, eight years and twelve books after Beau Ideal. All four novels feature what Wren is famous for: stories of the French Foreign Legion.

The Geste Novels Part A: Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)

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Beau Geste (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Beau Geste (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

The Sinbad Novels Part A: Action and Passion & Sinbad the Soldier (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)

The Sinbad Novels Part B: Fort in the Jungle & The Disappearance of General Jason (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)

Beau Geste

Beau Geste

Snake And Sword

Beau Geste

Beau Geste (Gateway Movie Classics)

The Geste Novels Part A: Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)