SNAKE AND SWORD (Unabridged)
Fear, Honor, and Love in the French Foreign Legion: A Soldier Conquers Snake Phobia in Pre-1914 North AfricaBy P. C. Wren
Length8h 51m
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Snake and Sword is one of the first novels of P. C. Wren. Damocles de Warrenne, or simply Dam, has inherited irrational fear of snakes from his mother and, though quite intelligent, capable and brave soldier, he faints at the mere sight of a snake, which is causing him big problems. He can't manage to become an officer in the army, but only a private. He also loses love and respect of the woman he fancies and it is leading him deeper into self exile. Dam must conquer his fears in order to regain the respect of his fellow soldiers and the love of a woman.
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. The descriptions of Legion garrison life given in his work The Wages of Virtue, written in 1914, closely match those contained in the autobiographical In the Foreign Legion by ex-legionnaire Edwin Rosen.
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GenreFantasy, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 12, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1SNAKE AND SWORD
11Chapter IX. A Snake Avenges a Haddock and Lucille Behaves in an Un-Smelliean Manner
2Part I. The Welding of a Soul: Chapter I. The Snake and the Soul
12Chapter X. Much Ado About Almost Nothing—a Trooper
3Part II. The Searing of a Soul
13Chapter XI. More Myrmidons
4Chapter II. The Sword and the Snake
14Part III. The Saving of a Soul
5Chapter III. The Snake Appears
15Chapter XII. Vultures and Luck—good and Bad
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6Chapter IV. The Sword and the Soul
16Chapter XIII. Found
7Chapter V. Lucille
17Chapter XIV. The Snake and the Sword
8Chapter VI. The Snake's "Myrmidon"
18Seven Years After
9Chapter VII. Love—and the Snake
19Epilogue
10Chapter VIII. Troopers of the Queen
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