Talbot Mundy
タルボット・マンディ
تالبوت موندي
Adventure-fiction
Kathleen Steele
Inez Craven
Harriette Rosemary Strafer
Theda "Dawn" Webber
Sally Ames
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William Lancaster Gribbon
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Mundy, Talbot
Taves
Ellis
Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom
Anna Maria Island, Manatee County, Florida, United States
Short story writer, novelist
— Talbot Mundy.
— Talbot Mundy, on how he started King of the Khyber Rifles.
— Biographer Brian Taves.
"Why did I start writing? The price of pork and beans made it necessary. I just got hungry enough, which is always a good thing for beginners. I was in New York and I knew Jeff Hanley, a red haired reporter on a paper there. I would pound out stuff on the typewriter and Jeff would come home, look my stuff over, say it was rotten, which it was, and make me go ahead doing more of it. Finally, under the stint of his irony I wrote a story and sold it to Frank Munsey."
"I remember sitting in the dark and seeing the throat of the Khyber Pass at sunset - gloomy, ominous, mysterious, lonely, haunted by the ghosts of murdered men and by the prowling outlaws who live by the rifle and shun the daylight. As if the word were almost spoken in my ear I heard "Death roosts in the Khyber while he preens his wings." It seemed like a good line, so I made a note of it."
"[Mundy's] style is simultaneously breezy and pungent, full of epigrams and laden with meaning. Attention to timing, tone, feel, mood, and atmosphere, including the olfactory senses, contribute enormously to all Mundy's stories, whatever the region ... He was able to describe locales and foreign beliefs with a convincing touch of authenticity, combining knowledge from other books, popular legends, and his own travel writings and friendships with a vivid imagination, leaving the reader unable to discern what was fact and what was fiction."
Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy
İngiliz yazar (1879 – 1940)
British writer, born William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940)
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englisch-US-amerikanischer Abenteurer, Autor und Theosoph
écrivain britannique
Brits auteur (1879-1940)
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scrittore britannico
Mundy, c. 1917
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British
Walter Galt