Talbot Mundy
Hardcover | Pages: 394 pages Rating: 3.7 | 201 Users | 29 Reviews
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| Original Title: | King of the Khyber Rifles |
| ISBN: | 0937986143 (ISBN13: 9780937986141) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/TalbotMundy/Yasmini/KingOfTheKhyberRifles.html |
| Series: | Yasmini #4 |
| Characters: | Athelstan King, Princess Yasmini |
| Setting: | United States of America |
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Serialized in Everybody's Magazine, May 1916 ff. (9 parts)First book edition published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1916
King -- of the Khyber Rifles may well be Mundy's most famous work. Set in India and the regions beyond, it was successful enough so that two movies were adapted from its pages, although neither portrayed Athelstan King as Mundy intended him. And neither evoked the fantasy and mysticism that are so much a part of this book.Somewhere beyond India, on a quest for the remote and half-fabled Khinjan Caves, King meets a cast of characters that includes the Princess Yasmini, Ismail, Darya Khan, and various hakims, rangars, and mullahs. And deep in the unknown caverns lie "the sleepers", about whom a marvelous and fantastic tale is spun
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| Title | : | King of the Khyber Rifles (Yasmini #4) |
| Author | : | Talbot Mundy |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 394 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1978 by Donald M Grant (first published 1916) |
| Categories | : | Adventure. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 201 Users | 29 ReviewsCritique Based On Books King of the Khyber Rifles (Yasmini #4)
Athelstan King, seventh generation India-British soldier, must investigate mystery "Heart of the Hills", rumors of an India uprising that would surprise British forces facing the other way, the German war machine of WW1. His strange ability like "water, to reach the point he aimed for" p20 can reach through a noisy loud crowded train station, or bandit-ridden northern Hills to Khinjan Caves, where seductive mesmerising Yasmini rules and no other Secret Service Agent has returned from. His proudI had read the clasic comic in the 50s and also saw the movie with Tyrone Power in either 59 or 60. This book is slightly different from the classic comic. Talbot Mundy has an ex cathedra way of pronouncing on all and sundry especially the differences between East and West. Still a very exciting read, and a glimse into the mindset of a colonial in the early 1900s.
A somewhat mixed adventure story, King of the Khyber Rifles fails at its aspirations towards poetic imagery and the mundane philosophic bromides taken from the worst excesses of Theosophy. On the other hand, Mundy is clever with the turn of a phrase, the working of words, and often contradictory thoughts of his characters. It is a wonderful period piece, a glimpse of a vulnerable British Raj at the beginning of the Great War. And it plots out itself in a fashion that maintains interest, although
King of the Khyber RiflesKing of the Khyber Rifles, published in 1916, is a rousing tale of adventure on the Northwest Frontier on India. The author, Talbot Mundy (1879-1940), was born in England. After an adventurous life in various parts of the world he settled in the United States in 1911 where he began his writing career. He would go on to become one of the masters of the adventure genre.King of the Khyber Rifles opens in 1914. The outbreak of the European war poses major problems for the
Not a bad old yarn, reminiscent of both Kipling and Haggard. If you make it through the slow sections and somewhat repetitious philosophical speeches that Mundy has put into his characters' mouths, it's a decent enough adventure story with an interesting twist. I came to read this after hearing about this book being an inspiration for S.M. Stirling's "Peshawar Lancers" which I liked very much.Beware of the free download Kindle edition - it's full of bad OCR transcription from an old print
This a wonderful book - a cross between Kipling and Rider Haggard with lots of adventure, mysterious spies and the Khyber Pass to boot. A really good read which bounds along but also delineates the main characters well.
The East is a fantasy--it does not exist, save in the minds of Westerners. As Said points out, they make it up, out of their own hopes, dreams, and fears. They will create it even where it doesnt exist, and they will believe in it despite evidence to the contrary. When a lawyer in London convinces them with words, they will call him shrewd--when a Hakim in Delhi does the same, they lay it to mesmerism. When a young thing with a bare shoulder in Paris turns their head, it is because she is a
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