Who wrote the book Beau Geste?
Beau Geste Beau Geste Beau Geste is an adventure novel by 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. While written in 1924 the novel is set in the period before World War I. It has been adapted for the screen several times. Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist (and an archetype). 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
Beau Geste officer of Spahis who plays a secondary role in "Beau Geste") and "Beau Ideal". In this third volume Wren details what happened the night of the theft of the Blue Water. He also wrote "Good Gestes", a collection of short tales (about half of them about the Geste brothers and their American friends Hank and Buddy, who also feature prominently in "Beau Sabreur" and "Beau Ideal") and "Spanish Maine" (UK) ("The Desert Heritage" (USA)), where loose ends are tied up and the successive tales of John Geste's adventures come to an end. Life in the Foreign Legion is also represented