Beau Geste

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146560684X
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Download or read book Beau Geste written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first place, there was the old standing trouble about the Shuwa Patrol; in the second, the truculent Chiboks were waxing insolent again, and their young men were regarding not the words of their elders concerning Sir Garnet Wolseley, and what happened, long, long ago, after the battle of Chibok Hill. Thirdly, the price of grain had risen to six shillings a saa, and famine threatened; fourthly, the Shehu and Shuwa sheiks were quarrelling again; and, fifthly, there was a very bad smallpox ju-ju abroad in the land (a secret society whose "secret" was to offer His Majesty's liege subjects the choice between being infected with smallpox, or paying heavy blackmail to the society). Lastly, there was acrimonious correspondence with the All-Wise Ones (of the Secretariat in "Aiki Square" at Zungeru), who, as usual, knew better than the man on the spot, and bade him do either the impossible or the disastrous. And across all the Harmattan was blowing hard, that terrible wind that carries the Saharan dust a hundred miles to sea, not so much as a sand-storm, but as a mist or fog of dust as fine as flour, filling the eyes, the lungs, the pores of the skin, the nose and throat; getting into the locks of rifles, the works of watches and cameras, defiling water, food and everything else; rendering life a burden and a curse. The fact, moreover, that thirty days' weary travel over burning desert, across oceans of loose wind-blown sand and prairies of burnt grass, through breast-high swamps, and across unbridged boatless rivers, lay between him and Kano, added nothing to his satisfaction. For, in spite of all, satisfaction there was, inasmuch as Kano was rail-head, and the beginning of the first stage of the journey Home. That but another month lay between him and "leave out of Africa," kept George Lawrence on his feet. From that wonderful and romantic Red City, Kano, sister of Timbuktu, the train would take him, after a three days' dusty journey, to the rubbish-heap called Lagos, on the Bight of Benin of the wicked West African Coast. There he would embark on the good ship Appam, greet her commander, Captain Harrison, and sink into a deck chair with that glorious sigh of relief, known in its perfection only to those weary ones who turn their backs upon the Outposts and set their faces towards Home. Meantime, for George Lawrence--disappointment, worry, frustration, anxiety, heat, sand-flies, mosquitoes, dust, fatigue, fever, dysentery, malarial ulcers, and that great depression which comes of monotony indescribable, weariness unutterable, and loneliness unspeakable.

The Geste Novels

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Publisher : Riner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780985032661
Total Pages : 778 pages
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Download or read book The Geste Novels written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by Riner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geste Novels is the first of a seven volume series, The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren. Volume one of The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren contains 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 B

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Publisher : Riner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780985032685
Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book The Geste Novels Part B written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by Riner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Heroes of the French Epic

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Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831471
Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book Heroes of the French Epic written by and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The translations preserve the dynamic, musical qualities of their oral-based originals, and are intended for both general and more specialised readers. Introductions and Select Bibliographies accompany each poem."--Jacket.

Beau Ideal

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Publisher : Longmans, Green
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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Beau Ideal written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1928 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a series of novels on the French Foreign Legion service of Michael, Digby and John Geste.

Beau Ideal

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Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book Beau Ideal written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Beau Ideal" by Percival Christopher Wren. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Geste Novels Part a

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Publisher : Riner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780985032678
Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book The Geste Novels Part a written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by Riner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A History of French Literature

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
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Download or read book A History of French Literature written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent volume provides a complete history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day, taking us beyond traditional definitions of ‘literature' into the world of the best-seller and, beyond words, to graphic fiction and cinema Presents a definitive history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day. Incorporates coverage of Francophone writing in Europe, Canada, the West Indies and North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Links the development of literature to the mentalities and social conditions which produced it. Takes us beyond “literature” to study graphic fiction, cinema and the bestseller. Maps the rise of the Intellectual, and in so doing charts a progression from literary doctrine to critical theory.

After Ever After

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545292786
Total Pages : 171 pages
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Download or read book After Ever After written by Jordan Sonnenblick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took off to Africa to be in a drumming circle and "find himself." Jeffrey has a little soul searching to do, too, which begins with his escalating anger at Steven, an old friend who is keeping something secret, and a girl who is way out of his league but who thinks he's cute.

Beaux Gestes

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ISBN 13 : 9781938421235
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Beaux Gestes written by Laurence Wylie and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Wylie (1919-1995), a renowned scholar and teacher of French at Harvard, assembled this collection of French conventional gestures after studying at the Jacques Lecoq school of mime in Paris. The more than 60 photographs of him portraying the gestures are not only a delightful introduction to French "body talk" but also a stimulating insight into French culture and an excellent way to engage students of French. The Advanced Reasoning Forum is pleased to make available again this charming book first published in 1977.

Edmund Geste and His Books

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ISBN 13 : 9780948170249
Total Pages : 493 pages
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Download or read book Edmund Geste and His Books written by David Gordon Selwyn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edmund Geste, probably pronounced 'Guest', (c. 1515-1577) studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1536 under Henry VIII, rising to become Vice-Provost under Edward VI in 1550 before being expelled under Queen Mary. With the accession of Queen Elizabeth, he embarked on an ecclesiastical career, becoming Archdeacon of Canterbury (1559), Bishop of Rochester (1560), and finally Bishop of Salisbury in 1571. During all this time, he gradually amassed a considerable library which he left to his cathedral of Salisbury on his death. Dr Selwyn presents an account of Geste's career as a book collector, with a detailed study of his confessional journey from the 'old religion' to Elizabethan Protestantism. As well as the documentary sources, Dr Selwyn examines the evidence of the books themselves and Geste's use of them as shown by his often extensive annotations. He presents studies of the earlier provenance of the books, the bookbinders he used, and his theological interests in so far as these can be inferred from the range of authors, English and continental, in his collection. The book has indexes of publishers and printers, bindings, provenances and annotations, and also the pastedowns, many of which have been identified by Dr Christopher de Hamel and include many leaves from medieval manuscripts and printed books, some of considerable significance."--

The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242900
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse written by Philip Schultz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know.”—Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Years of Extermination I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work… in a forgotten well of ghostly sighs This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.

Good Gestes

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Publisher : Longmans, Green
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Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Good Gestes written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1929 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cupid in Africa

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465606815
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book Cupid in Africa written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There never lived a more honourable, upright, scrupulous gentleman than Major Hugh Walsingham Greene, and there seldom lived a duller, narrower, more pompous or more irascible one. Nor, when the Great War broke out, and gave him something fresh to do and to think about, were there many sadder and unhappier men. His had been a luckless and unfortunate life, what with his two wives and his one son; his excellent intentions and deplorable achievements; his kindly heart and harsh exterior; his narrow escapes of decoration, recognition and promotion. At cards he was not lucky—and in love he . . . well—his first wife, whom he adored, died after a year of him; and his second ran away after three months of his society. She ran away with Mr. Charles Stayne-Brooker (elsewhere the Herr Doktor Karl Stein-Brücker), the man of all men, whom he particularly and peculiarly loathed. And his son, his only son and heir! The boy was a bitter disappointment to him, turning out badly—a poet, an artist, a musician, a wretched student and “intellectual,” a fellow who won prizes and scholarships and suchlike by the hatful, and never carried off, or even tried for, a “pot,” in his life. Took after his mother, poor boy, and was the first of the family, since God-knows-when, to grow up a dam’ civilian. Father fought and bled in Egypt, South Africa, Burma, China, India; grandfather in the Crimea and Mutiny, great-grandfather in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, ancestors with Marlborough, the Stuarts, Drake—scores of them: and this chap, his son, theirdescendant, a wretched creature of whom you could no more make a soldier than you could make a service saddle of a sow’s ear! It was a comfort to the Major that he only saw the nincompoop on the rare occasions of his visits to England, when he honestly did his best to hide from the boy (who worshipped him) that he would sooner have seen him win one cup for boxing, than a hundred prizes for his confounded literature, art, music, classics, and study generally. To hide from the boy that the pæans of praise in his school reports were simply revolting—fit only for a feller who was going to be a wretched curate or wretcheder schoolmaster; to hide his distaste for the pale, slim beauty, which was that of a delicate girl rather than of the son of Major Hugh Walsingham Greene. . . . Too like his poor mother by half—and without one quarter the pluck, nerve, and “go” of young Miranda Walsingham, his kinswoman and playmate. . . . Too dam’ virtuous altogether.

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn

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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473376718
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The Geste of Duke Jocelyn written by Jeffery Farnol and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1920, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn is one of a series of romantic novels by the English author and leading light of the Regency romantic genre, Jeffery Farnol. The plot follows the adventures of Duke Jocelyn who masquerades as a court jester in order to win the heart of Yolande. A lively and suspense-filled tale that is still a gripping read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Beau Geste

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Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book Beau Geste written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, Michael "Beau" Geste overhears his aunt, Lady Brandon, telling of a sapphire heirloom, replaced by an imitation. When the gem disappears, Beau, Digby, and John--the three brothers--disappear, each leaving a note assuming the guilt. They join the Foreign Legion, Beau and John serving under brutal Sergeant Lejaune in North Africa, and Digby, as trumpeter at another post. The men revolt against Lejaune's cruelty, and he determines to get the jewel Beau is rumored to carry, but the garrison is attacked by Arabs and Beau is killed. John revenges his brother by killing Lejaune, Digby also is killed, and John returns home to Isobel, his fiancée.

The Beau Geste Trilogy - Complete Collection

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Total Pages : 1369 pages
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Download or read book The Beau Geste Trilogy - Complete Collection written by P. C. Wren and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator (among others) is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers are a metaphor for the British upper class values of a time gone by, and "the decent thing to do" is the leitmotif of the trilogy. The Geste brothers are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt at Brandon Abbas. The rest of Beau's band are mainly Isobel, Claudia and Augustus. When a precious jewel known as the "Blue Water" goes missing, Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers, Digby (his twin) and John. Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal are sequel novels and Good Gestes is a collection of short tales mainly about the Geste brothers and their American friends Hank and Buddy. Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing 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 unproven suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion. Table of Contents: The Beau Geste Trilogy: BEAU GESTE BEAU SABREUR BEAU IDEAL GOOD GESTES: What's in a Name A Gentleman of Colour David and His Incredible Jonathan The McSnorrt Reminiscent Mad Murphy's Miracle Buried Treasure If Wishes were Horses The Devil and Digby Geste The Mule Low Finance Presentiments Dreams Come True