Beau Geste (Stories Told & Retold)

Literature & Fiction

Percival Christopher Wren

Contemporary

Oxford University Press

<p>A French officer rides his camel toward a lonely fort in the Sahara. At each break in the parapet a soldier stands, rifle at the ready. Yet no bugle is sounded; no challenge is called; no sound of any kind echoes across the vast desert. There is only silence. And those staring men. . . So begins P.C. Wren's unforgettable mystery concerning the theft of a priceless sapphire and the remarkable adventures of the three Geste brothers. The illustrations in this volume of Beau Geste were produced by Helen Madeleine McKie for a 1927 edition of the book published by John Murray of London. Afterword by Brian Stableford. This is from the Reader's Digest  World's Best Reading series. The text is complete and unabridged.</p>

Beau Geste (The World's Best Reading)

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

A tale of adventure, intrigue and murder when, as a direct result of a crime in an English country house, the Geste brothers find themselves forced to flee the country and enlist in the French Foreign Legion. From the author of STORIES OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.

Beau Geste

Buccaneer Books

Literary

Readers' Digest

Beau Sabreur

Benediction Classics

<p>When Colonel Matthew Devon de Warrenne, V.C., D.S.O., of the Queen's Own (118th) Bombay Lancers, pinned his Victoria Cross to the bosom of his dying wife's night-dress, in token of his recognition that she was the braver of the twain, he was not himself.He was beside himself with grief.Afterwards he adjured the sole witness of this impulsive and emotional act, Major John Decies, never to mention his "damned theatrical folly" to any living soul, and to excuse him on the score of an ancient sword-cut on the head and two bad sun-strokes.For the one thing in heaven above, on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, that Colonel de Warrenne feared, was breach of good form and stereotyped convention.And the one thing he loved was the dying woman.This last statement applies also to Major John Decies, of the Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon of Bimariabad, and may even be expanded, for the one thing he ever had loved was the dying woman....</p>

Snake and Sword

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