
Writ in Barracks A Collection of Poems
By Edgar WallaceLength1h 4m
About this audiobook
Edgar Wallace's first published books were not thrillers or the Sanders of the river books, but collections of poetry. Wallace was very much a soldier poet. Wallace began publishing songs and poetry, much inspired by Rudyard Kipling, whom he met in Cape Town in 1898. Wallace's first book of ballads, The Mission that Failed!, was published that same year. In 1899, he bought his way out of the forces and turned to writing full-time. Remaining in Africa, he became a war correspondent, first for Reuters and then the Daily Mail (1900) and other periodicals during the Boer War.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length1 hr 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 8, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1WAR
17TOMMY TO HIS LAUREATE
2ARMY DOCTOR
18THE MISSION THAT FAILED
3NICHOLSON'S NEK
19THE PRAYER
4MY PAL, THE BOER
20CEASE FIRE
5SONG OF THE FIRST TRAIN THROUGH
21THE KING OF OOJEE-MOOJEE
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6THE NAVAL BRIGADE
22THE SONG OF THE TOWN
7THE ARMOURED TRAIN
23BY SIMON'S BAY
8MAKE YOUR OWN ARRANGEMENTS
24THE SQUIRE
9GINGER JAMES
25THE SEA-NATION
10'HER MAJESTY HAS BEEN PLEASED—'
26NATURE FAILS
11ARTHUR
27THE COLONEL'S GARDEN
12LEGACIES
28THE PEOPLE TO CECIL JOHN RHODES,
13T. A. IN LOVE
29WHEN LONDON CALLS!
14TOMMY ADVISES
30CAIROWARDS
15THE NUMBER ONE
31ODE TO THE OPENING OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXHIBITION, 1898
16BRITANNIA TO HER FIRST-BORN