JIM MAITLAND SERIES (Complete Edition)
Adventure Classics: The Travels of Jim Maitland & The Island of Terror
H. C. McNeile ; Sapper
- This
- carefully
- crafted
- ebook:
- "JIM
- MAITLAND
- SERIES
- (Complete
- Edition)"
- is
- formatted
- for
- your
- eReader
- with
- a
- functional
- and
- detailed
- table
- of
- contents.
- "THE
- first
- time
- I
- heard
- Jim
- Maitland's
- name
- mentioned
- was
- in
- the
- bar
- of
- a
- P.&O.
- We
- were
- two
- days
- out
- of
- Colombo,
- going
- East,
- and
- when
- I
- confessed
- my
- complete
- ignorance
- of
- the
- man
- a
- sort
- of
- stupefied
- silence
- settled
- on
- the
- company.
- "You
- don't
- know
- Jim?"
- murmured
- an
- Assam
- tea-planter.
- "I
- thought
- everyone
- knew
- Jim."
- "Anyway,
- if
- you
- stay
- in
- these
- parts
- long
- you
- soon
- will,"
- put
- in
- someone
- else.
- "And
- once
- known—never
- forgotten."
- -
- H.
- C.
- McNeile
- (Sapper)
- Herman
- Cyril
- McNeile
- (1888-1937),
- commonly
- known
- as
- H.
- C.
- McNeile
- or
- Sapper,
- was
- a
- British
- soldier
- and
- author.
- Drawing
- on
- his
- experiences
- in
- the
- trenches
- during
- the
- First
- World
- War,
- he
- started
- writing
- short
- stories
- and
- getting
- them
- published
- in
- the
- Daily
- Mail.
- After
- the
- war
- McNeile
- left
- the
- army
- and
- continued
- writing,
- although
- he
- changed
- from
- war
- stories
- to
- thrillers.
- In
- 1920
- he
- published
- Bulldog
- Drummond,
- whose
- eponymous
- hero
- became
- his
- best-known
- creation.
- The
- character
- was
- based
- on
- McNeile
- himself,
- on
- his
- friend
- Gerard
- Fairlie
- and
- on
- English
- gentlemen
- generally.
- McNeile
- interspersed
- his
- Drummond
- work
- with
- other
- novels
- and
- story
- collections
- that
- included
- two
- characters
- who
- appeared
- as
- protagonists
- in
- their
- own
- works,
- Jim
- Maitland
- and
- Ronald
- Standish.
- McNeile's
- stories
- are
- either
- directly
- about
- the
- war,
- or
- contain
- people
- whose
- lives
- have
- been
- shaped
- by
- it.
- His
- thrillers
- are
- a
- continuation
- of
- his
- war
- stories,
- with
- upper
- class
- Englishmen
- defending
- England
- from
- foreigners
- plotting
- against it.
