Author:Talbot Mundy

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Talbot Mundy (1879–1940)

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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: much of his work was published in pulp magazines. 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. — Excerpted from Talbot Mundy on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Works

(partial list)

Novels

The Yasmini stories

• A Soldier and a Gentleman, (1914; in Adventure Jan 1914)
• The Winds of the World, (1915) no scan
• King—of the Khyber Rifles (1916) no scan
• Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth, (1924; in Adventure March 3-May 3 1921 ^PG
• Caves of Terror AKA The Grey Mahatma, (1924; in Adventure Nov 10 1922) ^PG

The Jimgrim, Ramsden, Ommony Stories

• Jimgrim and Allah's Peace (1921) ^PG
• Affair in Araby AKA Jimgrim and the Affair in Araby AKA The King in Check (1922) ^PG
• The Iblis at Ludd (1922)
• The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil (1922 Adventure; 1935 book)
• The Lion of Petra (1922) ^PG
• The Woman Ayisha (1922)
• The Lost Trooper (1922)
• A Secret Society (1922)
• Moses and Mrs. Aintree (1922)
• The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb (1922)
• Jungle Jest AKA Benefit of Doubt (1922)
• The Nine Unknown (1923 Adventure; 1924 book)
• The Marriage of Meldrum Strange (1923 Adventure)
• The Hundred Days AKA Mohammed's Tooth (1923)
• Om—The Secret of Ahbor Valley (1924) (as Om, a 6-part sl in Adventure Oct-Nov 1924)

Other novels

• Rung Ho!: A novel AKA For the Peace of India, (1914) in Adventure ^PG
• Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders (1918) no scan
• The Ivory Trail AKA On the Trail of Tippoo Tib, Adventure May 1919 ^PG
• The Eye of Zeitoon (1920) AKA The Eye of Zeitun ^PG
• Told in the East (1920) ^PG
• Caesar Dies (1926) ^PG

Short stories and collections

• The Thrilling Adventures of Dick Anthony of Arran (book as The Sword of Iskander—The Adventures of Dick Anthony of Arran. A novel)
  • "The Sword of Iskander," (Adventure, Aug 1914)
  • "Foul of the Czar, (Adventure, Sep 1914)
  • "Go, Tell the Czar!," (Adventure, Oct 1914)
  • "King Dick," (Adventure, Nov 1914)
  • "Lancing The Whale," (Adventure, Dec 1914)
  • "Disowned!," (Adventure, Jan 1915)
  • "No Name," (Adventure, Feb 1915)
  • "On Terms," (Adventure, Mar 1915)

Others

• "Blighty," (1918, Adventure) essay / filler
• "The Lady and the Lord" (All-Story, Jun 1911)
• "Jimgrim, Moses, and Mrs. Aintree", 1922 (First book publication of magazine story, 2008)

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

External links

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