Beau Geste

Beau Geste (1924)
by Percival Christopher Wren

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London: John Murray, 1928. (First edition 1924).

An adventure novel, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. The novel is set in the period before World War I. It has been adapted for the screen several times.

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BEAU GESTE

BY

PERCIVAL CHRISTOPHER WREN

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

CONTENTS
PART I.
MAJOR HENRI DE BEAUJOLAIS' STORY
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I. Of the Strange Events at Zinderneuf 9
II. George Lawrence takes the Story to Lady Brandon at Brandon Abbas 69
PART II.
THE MYSTERY OF THE "BLUE WATER"
I. Beau Geste and his Band 83
II. The Disappearance of the "Blue Water" 99
III. The Gay Romantics 154
IV. The Desert 249
V. The Fort at Zinderneuf 259
VI. A "Viking's Funeral" 342
VII. Ishmaelites 384

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1924, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1941, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 82 years or less. This work 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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