The Collected Works of P. C. Wren: Complete Beau Geste Series, Novels & Short Stories

This carefully edited collection of P. C. Wren has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.



Table of Contents:



The Beau Geste Trilogy



BEAU GESTE



BEAU SABREUR



BEAU IDEAL



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



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



FLAWED BLADES: Tales from the Foreign Legion



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Bombs



Mastic--and Drastic



The Death Post



E Tenebris



Nemesis



The Hunting of Henri



PORT O' MISSING MEN: Strange Tales of the Stranger Regiment



The Return of Odo Klemens



The Betrayal of Odo Klemens



The Life of Odo Klemens



Moon-rise



Moon-shadows



Moon-set



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.