Edgar Wallace: Smithy and Nobby Series

Cover: 9788028357580 | Smithy and Nobby Series | Edgar Wallace | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Edgar Wallace's Smithy and Nobby Series gathers brisk, comic military tales centered on two irrepressible rankers whose schemes, loyalties, and misadventures turn army life into a theatre of wit and endurance. Written in a lively colloquial style, the stories draw on barrack-room speech, quick dialogue, and episodic plotting, placing them within the popular tradition of soldierly humour associated with Kipling yet sharpened by Wallace's journalistic pace and instinct for dramatic incident. Beneath the farce lies a shrewd sense of discipline, class, comradeship, and the absurdities of institutional life. Wallace himself was unusually equipped to write such fiction. Born in 1875, he served as a soldier before becoming a reporter and war correspondent during the South African War, experiences that gave him firsthand knowledge of military routine and enlisted men's perspectives. Later famous for thrillers, mysteries, and sensational plots, he brought to these sketches the same narrative economy and appetite for character under pressure. Readers interested in early twentieth-century popular fiction, military humour, or Wallace beyond his crime novels will find this series both entertaining and historically revealing.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028357580
ISBN-10:	802835758X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wallace, Edgar
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Edgar Wallace
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.12.2023
Gewicht:	0,533 kg