Talbot Mundy
(1879–1940)

born William Lancaster Gribbon; also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt: a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy.

Works

(partial list)

Novels

The Yasmini stories

The Jimgrim, Ramsden, Ommony Stories

Tros Of Samothrace

(Adventure Magazine 1925–26)

Other novels

Works from magazines

Non-fiction

Works on Talbot Mundy

  • Talbot Mundy Biblio: Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy, by Bradford M. Day (Editor) Project Gutenberg
  • Last Adventurer: The Life of Talbot Mundy, 1984, by Peter Berresford Ellis
  • Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure: A Critical Biography, 2005, by Brian Taves

PG Ebooks at Project Gutenberg
A larger selection of his works is available at Project Gutenberg (Aus)

 

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1940, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

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