Talbot Mundy

Gebundenes Buch

Jimgrim and a Secret Society

Beschreibung

"Jimgrim and a Secret Society" originally appeared in the classic pulp magazine Adventure, in the August 10, 1922 issue. It is part of Mundy's series featuring James Schuyler Grimm, better known as Jimgrim, a British agent. In this volume, he resigns from the British military service to take a job (along with his friends Jeff Ramsden, Narayan Singh, and Jeremy Ross) as a freelance agent combatting criminals who threaten world peace.

Autor

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 1879 - 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines. During Mundy's career his work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wildside Press
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781434499950
• ISBN-10: 1434499952
• Artikelnr.: 22799982