Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion
A Foreign Legion Romance of Colonial Warfare, Comradeship, and Courage Under PressureBy H. De Vere Stacpoole
Length3h 23m
About this audiobook
H. De Vere Stacpoole's *Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion* is a romantic adventure novel set against the martial and colonial world associated with France's Foreign Legion. Its narrative combines perilous action, foreign landscapes, military discipline, and the testing of personal loyalty, while using the Legion as both a dramatic institution and a symbol of lives remade through exile. Stacpoole's prose is direct, picturesque, and episodic, belonging to the late-Victorian and early twentieth-century tradition of popular imperial romance: it privileges movement, suspense, vivid incident, and moral courage, yet also draws interest from the tensions between individual freedom and institutional obedience. Stacpoole was an Irish-born physician and prolific novelist whose fiction ranged across romance, travel, historical adventure, and popular storytelling. His medical training and broad professional experience encouraged an attentive interest in physical danger, endurance, and the pressures exerted upon the human character. Best known for *The Blue Lagoon*, he repeatedly placed protagonists in unusual environments where isolation and adversity expose concealed loyalties and reshape identity. This background helps explain his attraction to the Foreign Legion, an institution already charged with mythic associations of anonymity, reinvention, and disciplined violence. The novel will reward readers interested in adventure fiction, colonial-era literary culture, and the imaginative mythology surrounding the French Foreign Legion. It offers an accessible narrative of action while inviting reflection on honor, belonging, masculinity, and the costs of beginning life anew. Readers should approach it both as an entertaining romance and as a revealing document of the period's fascination with distant places and legendary soldiers.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length3 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 (Annotated)
5THE LITTLE PRINCE
2CHOC
6MANSOOR
3QUITS
7THE BIRD CAGE
4SCHNEIDER
8THE SON OF CHOC
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