Beau Geste.
WREN, Percival Christopher.
Beau Geste.
"Honor was something to be prized beyond all earthly riches": Screenplay Edition of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1926.
$400.00
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Item Number: 148590
The screenplay edition of this classic adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with scenes from the 1926 Paramount Pictures film. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Advertisements to the verso of the dust jacket.
Beau Geste (1924) by P.C. Wren and its 1926 silent film adaptation directed by Herbert Brenon together exemplify the enduring appeal of imperial adventure narratives in early 20th-century Anglo-American culture. The novel, centered on themes of honor, brotherhood, and self-sacrifice, follows the Geste brothers as they join the French Foreign Legion in a tale marked by mystery and romanticized heroism set against the stark backdrop of colonial North Africa. The 1926 film, starring Ronald Colman, closely follows the novel’s plot and visualizes its dramatic elements with elaborate desert sets and a focus on cinematic spectacle. As one of the first major adaptations of the novel, the film helped to cement Beau Geste’s status in popular culture, reinforcing the mythos of the Legion as a site of noble suffering and masculine idealism.
