P C Wren: Collected Works - The Wages of Virtue Cupid in Africa Stepsons of France Snake and Sword Driftwood Spars & Biographical Stories of the French Foreign Legion

P. C. Wren

Summary

This unique and meticulously edited collection of P. C. Wren's greatest works includes: The Novels_x000D_ SNAKE AND SWORD_x000D_ THE WAGES OF VIRTUE_x000D_ DRIFTWOOD SPARS_x000D_ CUPID IN AFRICA (The Baking of Bertram in Love and War)_x000D_ Short Stories_x000D_ STEPSONS OF FRANCE_x000D_ Ten little Legionaries_x000D_ À la Ninon de L'Enclos_x000D_ An Officer and—a Liar_x000D_ The Dead Hand_x000D_ The Gift_x000D_ The Deserter_x000D_ Five Minutes_x000D_ "Here are Ladies"_x000D_ The MacSnorrt_x000D_ "Belzébuth"_x000D_ The Quest_x000D_ "Vengeance is Mine..."_x000D_ Sermons in Stones_x000D_ Moonshine_x000D_ The Coward of the Legion_x000D_ Mahdev Rao_x000D_ The Merry Liars_x000D_ Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. His novels and short stories mostly deal 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 suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion.

Available since: 12/12/2023.

Print length: 930 pages.

Humanities & Social Sciences

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