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Beau Ideal (novel)
''Beau Ideal'' is a 1927 novel by P. C. Wren. It was the second sequel to his 1924 novel ''Beau Geste''. It was adapted into the 1931 film ''Beau Ideal''. Plot The story is of Otis Vanbrugh, brother of Hank and Mary Vanbrugh, who featured in ''Beau Sabreur''. Otis and Mary leave a despotic father in Wyoming and make the Grand Tour of Europe. After meeting a French colonel their travel extends to North Africa. There their adventures become intwined with those already narrated in ''Beau Sabreur'' and ''Beau Geste''. In this third volume, and second sequel, definite disclosure is made of what happened the night the Blue Water was stolen and by whom (Wren will elaborate this part again in ''Spanish Maine''). Raoul d'Auray de Redon appears as an unsung hero of the French Secret Service. ''Beau Ideal'' is the "American" novel of the so called trilogy (which in fact spreads through five books), as ''Beau Geste'' is the "British" novel and ''Beau Sabreur'' is the "French" novel. It is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Ideal (novel)
''Beau Ideal'' is a 1927 novel by P. C. Wren. It was the second sequel to his 1924 novel ''Beau Geste''. It was adapted into the 1931 film ''Beau Ideal''. Plot The story is of Otis Vanbrugh, brother of Hank and Mary Vanbrugh, who featured in ''Beau Sabreur''. Otis and Mary leave a despotic father in Wyoming and make the Grand Tour of Europe. After meeting a French colonel their travel extends to North Africa. There their adventures become intwined with those already narrated in ''Beau Sabreur'' and ''Beau Geste''. In this third volume, and second sequel, definite disclosure is made of what happened the night the Blue Water was stolen and by whom (Wren will elaborate this part again in ''Spanish Maine''). Raoul d'Auray de Redon appears as an unsung hero of the French Secret Service. ''Beau Ideal'' is the "American" novel of the so called trilogy (which in fact spreads through five books), as ''Beau Geste'' is the "British" novel and ''Beau Sabreur'' is the "French" novel. It is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Geste
''Beau Geste'' is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, 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. Published in 1924, the novel is set in the period before World War I. It has been adapted for the screen several times. Plot summary Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers are portrayed as behaving according to the English upper-class values of a time gone by. The Geste siblings are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt Lady Patricia at Brandon Abbas. The rest of Beau's band are mainly Isobel and Claudia (possibly the illegitimate daughter of Lady Patricia) and Lady Patricia's relative Augustus (the caddish nephew of the absent Sir Hector Brandon). While not mentioned in ''Beau Geste'', the American Otis Vanbrugh appears as a friend of the Geste brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australasian
The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine. History and profile Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle'' (probably best known for Tom Wills's famous 1858 Australian rules football letter) was released. The weekly, which was produced by Charles Frederic Somerton in Melbourne, was one of several Bell's Life publications based on the format of ''Bell's Life in London'', a Sydney version having been published since 1845. On 1 October 1864, the weekly newspaper ''The Australasian'' was launched in Melbourne, Victoria by the proprietors of ''The Argus (Melbourne), The Argus''. It supplanted three unprofitable ''Argus'' publications: ''The Weekly Argus'', ''The Examiner (Melbourne), The Examiner'', and ''The Yeoman'', and contained features of all three. A competitor, ''The Age'', gloated that as it was printed on coarse h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Ideal
''Beau Ideal'' is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was based on the 1927 adventure novel ''Beau Ideal'' by P. C. Wren, the third novel in a series of five novels based around the same characters. Brenon had directed the first in the series, ''Beau Geste'', which was a very successful silent film in 1926. The screenplay was adapted from Wren's novel by Paul Schofield, who had also written the screenplay for the 1926 ''Beau Geste'', with contributions from Elizabeth Meehan and Marie Halvey. The film starred Ralph Forbes (reprising his role as John Geste from the 1926 ''Beau Geste''), Loretta Young, and Irene Rich. The other lead, Lester Vail, was making his film debut, after he replaced Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who had originally been selected for a principal role in the film. Exteriors were filmed on locations in Arizona and Mexico, while the interiors were filmed on the RKO lot in Hollywood, and produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battalions Of Light Infantry Of Africa
The Battalions of Light Infantry of Africa (French: ''Bataillons d'Infanterie Légère d'Afrique'' or BILA), better known under the acronym ''Bat' d'Af, were French infantry and construction units, serving in Northern Africa, made up of men with prison records who still had to do their military service or soldiers with serious disciplinary records. History Creation Created by King Louis Philippe I on 13 June 1832, shortly after the French Foreign Legion, the Bat' d'Af' were part of the Army of Africa and were stationed in Tataouine, Tunisia, in one of the most arid and hostile regions of the French colonial empire. The original ''Ordonnance royale'' (Royal order) creating this corps provided for 2 battalions, each of 8 companies. A third battalion was created in September 1833. According to the order the rank and file of these units were to be drawn from: (i) serving soldiers who had been sentenced to existing disciplinary companies and who had not completed their period of army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army Of Africa (France)
The Army of Africa (french: Armée d’Afrique ) was an unofficial but commonly used term for those portions of the French Army stationed in French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) from 1830 until the end of the Algerian War in 1962, including the French units made up of indigenous recruits. Composition The Army of Africa included indigenous Arab or Berber volunteers; (spahis, Goumiers and tirailleurs); regiments largely made up of pied-noir French settlers doing their military service (zouaves and chasseurs d'Afrique); and non-French volunteers (Légion étrangère). The divisions were not absolute and (for example) volunteers or conscripts from mainland France might choose to serve with the Muslim rank and file of the spahis and tirailleurs, while Arab volunteers might appear amongst the ranks of the zouaves. Prior to World War I, one battalion of each of the four zouave regiments then in existence, was recruited in France. These battalions' bases were thereby provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a Virtual volunteering, volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. , Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks. The releases are available in Text file, plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket, MOBI, and Plucker wherever possible. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available. There are multiple affiliated projects that provide additional content, including region- and language-specific works. Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders, an Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 British Novels
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British Novels Adapted Into Films
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English Adventure Novels
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