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Um der Strafe für ein Verbrechen zu entgehen, das sein Geschäftspartner begangen hat, schließt sich 1906 der Amerikaner Michael Geste, Beau genannt, der französischen Fremdenlegion an. Er wird zum Fort Zinderneuf in der arabischen Wüste beordert. Das Fort wird de facto von dem sadistischen und brutalen Sergeant Dagineau befehligt. Beau, der sich nicht von dem Sergeant unterdrücken lässt, gewinnt bei den Kammeraden an Ansehen. Mit dem schwachen...

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Um der Strafe für ein Verbrechen zu entgehen, das sein Geschäftspartner begangen hat, schließt sich 1906 der Amerikaner Michael Geste, Beau genannt, der französischen Fremdenlegion an. Er wird zum Fort Zinderneuf in der arabischen Wüste beordert. Das Fort wird de facto von dem sadistischen und brutalen Sergeant Dagineau befehligt. Beau, der sich nicht von dem Sergeant unterdrücken lässt, gewinnt bei den Kammeraden an Ansehen. Mit dem schwachen...

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The Later India Novels Part A contains two novels, Beggars' Horses, published in America in 1943, after Wren's death, as The Dark Woman, and Explosion which never saw an American publication. Beggars' Horses is the story of six British army officers who have a confrontation with an Indian fakir or Holy Man. The six officers are asked what they would "wish" for. One asks for great strength, the others ask to be healthy, to live a long life, for...

The Earlier India Novels Part B" contains the revised versions of the third and fourth novels written by Wren. Of the four novels comprising "The Earlier India Novels" by Wren, these novels are the closest to what Wren is most famous for: adventure stories. "The Snake and the Sword" is a tightly plotted novel and not a loose knit collection of stories. The major conflict results from the theory that a strong mental shock to a pregnant woman be...

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 vo...

The Foreign Legion Novels Part A contains The Wages of Virtue (1916), Wren's first novel of the French Foreign Legion, and Sowing Glory (1931), a novel supposedly only edited, not written, by Wren. The Wages of Virtue is the story of Sir Montague Merline in the French Foreign Legion. Merline (known as John Bull) joined the Legion after recovering from his apparent death in combat while serving in Africa. Upon regaining his memory several years...

The English Novels Part A contains two novels, Bubble Reputation and Cardboard Castle, that are set in the English countryside in large country manor houses. Bubble Reputation is the story of Sir Giles Cortenay (known as Bump), the last descendant of an old English family. Due to difficult economic circumstances, Bump has turned the family manor into a country hotel. The main plot is about the mystery of the murder of Bump's granduncle and the...

The Foreign Legion Novels Part B contains the novels Paper Prison, published in 1939, and The Uniform of Glory, published in 1941. Paper Prison is the story of twin fraternal brothers, Mark and Luke Tuyler, and the woman whom they love, Rosanne. Paper Prison is a complex novel, published (and assumed to be written) in the later part of Wren's life. It is more realistic than most of his more famous novels, with its themes of infidelity, divorce...