Essential Novelists - Talbot Mundy: philosophy of adventure fiction
May 2020 · Essential Novelists Book 57 · Tacet Books
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofTalbot Mundywhich areKing--of the Khyber Riflesand Affair in Araby. During Talbot Mundy's career 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. His work has been cited as an influence on a variety of later science-fiction and fantasy writers, and he has been the subject of two biographies. Novels selected for this book: - King--of the Khyber Rifles - Affair in Araby. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
About the author
Talbot Mundy(bornWilliam Lancaster Gribbon, 23 April 1879 5 August 1940) was an English-born American writer ofadventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym ofWalter Galt. Best known as the author ofKing of the Khyber Riflesand the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published inpulp magazines.
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