P. C. Wren: Adventure Novels & Tales From the Foreign Legion (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Wages of Virtue, Cupid in Africa, Snake and Sword, Driftwood Spars…By P. C. Wren
Length44h 34m
About this audiobook
P. C. Wren: Adventure Novels & Tales From the Foreign Legion gathers the author's best-known romances of exile, comradeship, and endurance, set against the severe imaginative landscape of North Africa and the mythic institution of the French Foreign Legion. Written in a vigorous, late-imperial idiom, these narratives combine melodrama, mystery, military discipline, and moral testing. Their literary context is the adventure tradition of Haggard, Kipling, and Buchan, yet Wren's emphasis on loyalty under anonymity gives the Legion tale a distinctive tragic grandeur. Percival Christopher Wren (1875–1941) was an English writer whose life in the British Empire shaped his fiction's fascination with codes of honour, colonial frontiers, and displaced identities. Educated at Oxford and long associated with India as teacher and administrator, he possessed intimate knowledge of imperial institutions and masculine public-school ideals. Claims about his actual Legion service remain debated, but his imaginative command of Legion mythology proved enduring. This volume is recommended to readers of classic adventure fiction, imperial literary history, and narratives of brotherhood tested by hardship. It offers excitement, atmosphere, and a revealing portrait of early twentieth-century heroic fantasy.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length44 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE WARS IN WILDERNESS - Action & Adventure Collection (Annotated)
2Novels:
3SNAKE AND SWORD
4Chapter I. The Snake and the Soul
5Chapter II. The Sword and the Snake
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6Chapter III. The Snake Appears
7Chapter IV. The Sword and the Soul
8Chapter V. Lucille
9Chapter VI. The Snake's "Myrmidon"
10Chapter VII. Love—and the Snake
11Chapter VIII. Troopers of the Queen
12Chapter IX. A Snake Avenges a Haddock and Lucille Behaves in an Un-Smelliean Manner
13Chapter X. Much Ado About Almost Nothing—a Trooper
14Chapter XI. More Myrmidons
15Chapter XII. Vultures and Luck—good and Bad
16Chapter XIII. Found
17Chapter XIV. The Snake and the Sword
18Seven Years After
19Epilogue
20THE WAGES OF VIRTUE
21Chapter I. Soap and Sir Montague Merline
22Chapter II. A Barrack-Room of the Legion
23Chapter III. Carmelita Et Cie
24Chapter IV. The Canteen of the Legion
25Chapter V. The Trivial Round
26Chapter VI. Le Cafard and Other Things
27Chapter VII. The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
28Chapter VIII. The Temptation of Sir Montague Merline
29Chapter IX. The Café and the Canteen
30Chapter X. The Wages of Sin
31Chapter XI. Greater Love..
32Epilogue
33DRIFTWOOD SPARS
34Chapter I. The Man
35Chapter II. The Boy
36§ 1. Mr. Grobble
37§ 2. General Murger
38§ 3. Sergeant-Major Lawrence-Smith
39§ 4. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Gosling-Green
40§ 5. Mr. Horace Faggit
41§ 1
42§ 2
43§ 3
44CUPID IN AFRICA: Or, The Baking of Bertram in Love and War
45Chapter I. Major Hugh Walsingham Greene
46Chapter II. Mr. Charles Stayne-Brooker (or Herr Karl Stein-Brücker)
47Chapter III. Mrs. Stayne-Brooker—and Her Ex-Stepson
48Chapter I. Bertram Becomes a Man of War
49Chapter II. And is Ordered to East Africa
50Chapter III. Preparations
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