Beau Geste

by Percival Christopher Wren

Overview

Beau Geste is a 1924 adventure novel by P. C. Wren. It has been adapted for the screen several times. Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator (among others), by contrast, is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers of Brandon Abbas are used as a metaphor for the British upper class values of a time gone by, and "the decent thing to do" is, in fact, the leitmotif of the novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604443639
Publisher:	Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Publication date:	01/18/2011
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Percival Christopher Wren (1875–1941) was a prolific author of adventure fiction whose novels and short stories chiefly tell of colonial soldiering in Africa. He served as headmaster at India's Karachi High School for two decades, after which he is reputed to have joined the French Foreign Legion. Although the proof of his military service is inconclusive, Wren's fictional accounts of life among the legionnaires are noted for the accuracy of their details.