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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...

The Earlier India Novels Part A" contains the revised versions of the first two published novels by P. C. Wren. "Dew and Mildew", as is usual with a first novel, contains a large amount of autobiographical information. Major themes include education (especially "moral" education), volunteer corps, politics, children, and psychic experiences. The connecting theme throughout the entire book is that of Sudden-Death Lodge, which is a cursed and ha...

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 t...

A Mixed Bag of Novels Part B contains Cupid in Africa and Mysterious Waye. Cupid in Africa, with a subtitle of "The Baking of Bertram in Love and War", is the story of a young man who though from a military family is anything but militaristic. But when World War I breaks out he volunteers for the Indian Army. The first part of the book has a number of amusing situations that this unmilitaristic young man encounters upon joining his regiment as...

A Mixed Bag of Novels Part A contains Soldiers of Misfortune and Valiant Dust, which could be considered as one long novel since Valiant Dust is a direct sequel. Soldiers of Misfortune is the story of a young man, Otho Bellême, the son of Sir Bellême and his cook, Mary. After the death of Sir Bellême Otho and his mother have to leave their home and move in with Mary's poor relations. Otho is able to attend Oxford because Joe Mummery, the heavy...

Volume Six of The Collected Novels of P. C. Wren, The English Novels, contains four novels with a different setting than that of his other novels. The action takes place almost entirely in England, which is why the title of this omnibus edition is the English novels. Part B contains two novels, The Mammon of Righteousness (1930) and Two Feet From Heaven (1940), that are the most psychological, versus action and adventure, of all of Wren's nove...

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