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)

Literature & Fiction

Wren, Percival Christopher

Genre Fiction

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

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). Wren also published seven short story collections: Stepsons of France (1917), The Young Stagers (1917), Good Gestes (1929), Flawed Blades (1933), Port o' Missing Men (1934), Rough Shooting (1938), and Odd—But Even So (1941). These short story collections contained a total of 116 stories. There were also two omnibus collections published, Stories of the Foreign Legion (1947) and Dead Men's Boots (1949), containing stories taken from Stepsons of France, Good Gestes, Flawed Blades, and Port o' Missing Men. In addition to the 116 stories published in Wren's short story collections there are some additional items in The Collected Short Stories. "At Oxford: Innocent Ernest and Artful Eintz" is a short story originally published in 1919 in an obscure fiction magazine. "The Romantic Regiment" and "Twenty-Four Hours in the Foreign Legion" are "factual" articles originally published in magazines. "Wonderful Egypt" is an article (more a photographic essay) originally published in The Strand Magazine. The article "I Saw a Vision!" originally appeared in a rare psychic magazine, Prediction. There is also an article found in an Australian newspaper, "Meaning of Dreams", where Wren relates a couple of dreams he had experienced. Finally there is "Broken Glass", an unpublished short story. Each volume in The Collected Short Stories includes an introduction and commentary on each story by the editor, John L. Espley. Volume one of The Collected Short Stories contains all of the stories included in The Young Stagers and Stepsons of France. Volume one also includes "Double Saddle" (from Flawed Blades), and the first book appearance of "At Oxford: Innocent Ernest and Artful Eintz".

Collected Short Stories: of Percival Christopher Wren

Wren, P.C.

Short Stories & Anthologies

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). Wren also published seven short story collections: Stepsons of France (1917), The Young Stagers (1917), Good Gestes (1929), Flawed Blades (1933), Port o' Missing Men (1934), Rough Shooting (1938), and Odd—But Even So (1941). These short story collections contained a total of 116 stories. There were also two omnibus collections published, Stories of the Foreign Legion (1947) and Dead Men's Boots (1949), containing stories taken from Stepsons of France, Good Gestes, Flawed Blades, and Port o' Missing Men. In addition to the 116 stories published in Wren's short story collections there are some additional items in The Collected Short Stories. "At Oxford: Innocent Ernest and Artful Eintz" is a short story originally published in 1919 in an obscure fiction magazine. "The Romantic Regiment" and "Twenty-Four Hours in the Foreign Legion" are "factual" articles originally published in magazines. "Wonderful Egypt" is an article (more a photographic essay) originally published in The Strand Magazine. The article "I Saw a Vision!" originally appeared in a rare psychic magazine, Prediction. There is also an article found in an Australian newspaper, "Meaning of Dreams", where Wren relates a couple of dreams he had experienced. Finally there is "Broken Glass", an unpublished short story. Each story has introductory comments by the editor, John L. Espley. Volume two of The Collected Short Stories contains eighteen short stories and two non-fiction articles originally published between 1928 and 1933. Twelve of the eighteen stories come from the collection, Good Gestes (1929), and the remaining six from Flawed Blades (1933). One of the articles was originally published in a fiction magazine, Soldiers of Fortune (December 1931), and the other article first appeared as a BBC radio broadcast.

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). Wren also published seven short story collections: Stepsons of France (1917), The Young Stagers (1917), Good Gestes (1929), Flawed Blades (1933), Port o' Missing Men (1934), Rough Shooting (1938), and Odd-But Even So (1941). These short story collections contained a total of 116 stories. There were also two omnibus collections published, Stories of the Foreign Legion (1947) and Dead Men's Boots (1949), containing stories taken from Stepsons of France, Good Gestes, Flawed Blades, and Port o' Missing Men. In addition to the 116 stories published in Wren's short story collections there are some additional items in The Collected Short Stories. "At Oxford: Innocent Ernest and Artful Eintz" is a short story originally published in 1919 in an obscure fiction magazine. "The Romantic Regiment" and "Twenty-Four Hours in the Foreign Legion" are "factual" articles originally published in magazines. "Wonderful Egypt" is an article (more a photographic essay) originally published in The Strand Magazine. The article "I Saw a Vision " originally appeared in a rare psychic magazine, Prediction. There is also an article found in an Australian newspaper, "Meaning of Dreams", where Wren relates a couple of dreams he had experienced. Finally there is "Broken Glass", an unpublished short story. Each story has introductory comments by the editor, John L. Espley. Volume three of The Collected Short Stories contains nineteen stories by Wren and one article by the editor. The nineteen stories include nine from Flawed Blades (February 1933) and ten from Port o' Missing Men (March 1934). The article is a listing of all of Wren's stories that are related to one another, providing a list of stories featuring various characters (such as La Cigale, McSnorrt, the Geste Brothers, etc.) and other relationships (stories set in India, stories about the Foreign Legion, stories about the sea, etc.).

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). Wren also published seven short story collections: Stepsons of France (1917), The Young Stagers (1917), Good Gestes (1929), Flawed Blades (1933), Port o' Missing Men (1934), Rough Shooting (1938), and Odd-But Even So (1941). These short story collections contained a total of 116 stories. There were also two omnibus collections published, Stories of the Foreign Legion (1947) and Dead Men's Boots (1949), containing stories taken from Stepsons of France, Good Gestes, Flawed Blades, and Port o' Missing Men. In addition to the 116 stories published in Wren's short story collections there are some additional items in The Collected Short Stories. "At Oxford: Innocent Ernest and Artful Eintz" is a short story originally published in 1919 in an obscure fiction magazine. "The Romantic Regiment" and "Twenty-Four Hours in the Foreign Legion" are "factual" articles originally published in magazines. "Wonderful Egypt" is an article (more a photographic essay) originally published in The Strand Magazine. The article "I Saw a Vision " originally appeared in a rare psychic magazine, Prediction. There is also an article found in an Australian newspaper, "Meaning of Dreams", where Wren relates a couple of dreams he had experienced. Finally there is "Broken Glass", an unpublished short story. Each story has introductory comments by the editor, John L. Espley. Volume four of The Collected Short Stories contains twenty two short stories and one article. There are nine stories from Port o' Missing Men (1934) and thirteen from Rough Shooting (1938) that were originally published between 1933 and 1938, with some of the stories being published first in magazines and newspapers. The article is "Wonderful Egypt" which was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1936.

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).  Wren also published seven short story collections:  Stepsons of France (1917), The Young Stagers (1917), Good Gestes (1929), Flawed Blades (1933), Port o' Missing Men (1934), Rough Shooting (1938), and Odd—But Even So (1941).  These short story collections contained a total of 116 stories.  There were also two omnibus collections published, Stories of the Foreign Legion (1947) and Dead Men's Boots (1949), containing stories taken from Stepsons of France, Good Gestes, Flawed Blades, and Port o' Missing Men.  In addition to the 116 stories published in Wren's short story collections there are some additional items in The Collected Short Stories.  "At Oxford: Innocent Ernest and Artful Eintz" is a short story originally published in 1919 in an obscure fiction magazine.  "The Romantic Regiment" and "Twenty-Four Hours in the Foreign Legion" are "factual" articles originally published in magazines.  "Wonderful Egypt" is an article (more a photographic essay) originally published in The Strand Magazine.  The article "I Saw a Vision!" originally appeared in a rare psychic magazine, Prediction.  There is also an article found in an Australian newspaper, "Meaning of Dreams", where Wren relates a couple of dreams he had experienced.  Finally there is "Broken Glass", an unpublished short story.  Each story has introductory comments by the editor, John L. Espley.  Volume five of The Collected Short Stories has a total of twenty seven items:  nine stories from Rough Shooting (1938), fifteen stories from Odd—But Even So (1941), one previously unpublished story, one article from an Australian newspaper, and another article from a psychic magazine.

I Am a Latter-day Saint: Stories From the Life of Luther and Edna Espley

Biographies & Memoirs

Espley, Luther

Leaders & Notable People

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)

Action & Adventure

The Geste Novels Part B: Beau Ideal, Spanish Maine (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)

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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)

Collected Short Stories: of Percival Christopher Wren

Collected Short Stories: of Percival Christopher Wren

Collected Short Stories: of Percival Christopher Wren

Collected Short Stories: of Percival Christopher Wren

Collected Short Stories: of Percival Christopher Wren

I Am a Latter-day Saint: Stories From the Life of Luther and Edna Espley

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

The Geste Novels Part B: Beau Ideal, Spanish Maine (The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren)