Beau Geste, P. C. Wren
Beau Geste, P. C. Wren
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Beau Geste

Author: P. C. Wren

Narrator: Geoffrey Howard

Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Beau Geste is the worldfamous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage and treachery. It is the thrilling story of three men who brave the hellish brutality and ruthless savagery of the French Foreign Legion to protect the honor of a woman they love.

About P. C. Wren

Percival Christopher Wren (1875–1941) was an English author of thirty-three novels and short stories of adventure fiction, mostly written about colonial soldiers in Africa. He is best know for Beau Geste, written in 1924 about the French Foreign Legion, which was adapted for the screen several times. He was born in Deptford, England. After graduating with an MA from Oxford, he traveled the world for five years before joining the British Cavalry. From there it is believed that he joined the French Foreign Legion, though he kept his membership secret. He worked for ten years in India for the Bombay government before retiring to England to concentrate on his literary career. The success of Beau Geste led to his publication of a series of Foreign Legion novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on May 22, 2023

Questions of duty and decency as shield over a loved one are examined in this wonderful novel of adventure and friendship. Michael, Digby and John (the Geste brothers) run away to join the French Foreign Legion in Algeria after the "Blue Water" sapphire disappears and Lady Brandon (the aunt who has......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 02, 2014

I've read that a classic is a book that is never finished saying what it has to say. I further define one by it being a great story hidden behind awful, dated writing that has been butchered by Hollywood, & forced upon too-young souls by sadistic English teachers. This book escaped half of the usual......more

Goodreads review by Warren on June 02, 2022

The opening premise of this classic adventure is quite intriguing and sets this up as more of a mystery than a military action yarn. But once we are introduced to our main heroes, the Geste brothers, I started to lose interest. There is something about overly romanticized tales about European coloni......more

Goodreads review by Elisabeth on June 21, 2017

I stayed up till a quarter to midnight to finish it, so I think that says something for the blend of mystery and adventure.........more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on September 21, 2014

This is one of those books I've been meaning to read since...well since i was a kid. Gary Cooper is Beau Geste for me. I'll say this...that old movie isn't too far from the book and it captures the book's adventure. Told from the beginning by a Frenchman (who of course gets the "compliment" that he's......more

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