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This volume contains the 3 novels of the acclaimed TROS SERIES by English-born American writer of adventure fiction Talbot Mundy, no doubt his most outstanding work, together with the Jimgrim -Ramsden -Ommony Stories. His work was often compared with that of his contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Eastern religion and philosophy. The 3 historical novels contained in this volume are: Tros of Samothrace (1925) Queen Cleopatra (1929) Purple Pirate (1935)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Ian Myles Slater on: The Whole Tros of Samothrace, Once Again By Ian M. Slater “Tros of Samothrace” is a massive historical novel, which, together with two sequels, “Queen Cleopatra” and “The Purple Pirate,” was awkwardly handled by hardcover publishers, and treated even worse in certain paperback editions (see the Wikipedia article on “Tros” for some of the problems).This new Kindle edition of the *complete* series, as “The Tros Stories” (or “The Tros Trilogy,” if you prefer the cover title to that on the product page) is more than welcome. The text appears to be in good condition (I no longer have a print copy with which to compare it), and a Kindle-navigable table of contents makes it easy to find one's way through the three novels in the series (unlike an earlier digital incarnation).Besides making some splendid fiction available again (and at a very low price), it neatly clears away a lot of the confusion generated by some print publishers’ decisions on how to handle the material, making finding the set a breeze for anyone using a Kindle, or Kindle App (for PCs, Macs, etc.), instead of an ordeal of sorting through dealers’ listings.“The Tros Trilogy” in effect replaces an earlier “Complete Tros of Samothrace” Kindle book from another publisher, which appeared and disappeared (along with other titles from the same publisher) back in 2013; I gave it a glowing review at the time, although by the time it disappeared from Amazon I had become frustrated with its lack of aides to navigation.. After some consideration, and a shorter review I posted immediately after noticing this edition's, I am making available an edited version of the extended review (with some bibliographic details) I created for that earlier Kindle edition, itself based on my reviews of (now) out-of-print paperbacks.Those interested in reviews by others (and my own earlier ones) can now find them gathered by Amazon for a CreateSpace edition of “Tros of Samothrace” (only).The “mystifications” of some of the mass-market paperback incarnations were unintentional, but perhaps ironically appropriate, given the author’s dubious career in British India and Africa, and also his later occult interests. “Mr. Talbot Mundy” has been the subject of two biographies in recent decades, with more still being uncovered about his real past. A good overview is provided on-line in “Talbot Mundy: Master of Mystical Adventure,” by R. T. Gault. (Duane Spurlock has re-posted Gault’s bibliographic information, and in several cases I have deferred to their dates, rather than sticking with what I had found in older reference works. “Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy” by Bradford M. Day is available from Project Gutenberg; very good, but not easy to use in its plain-text form.)“Tros” and some of Mundy’s other stories also have striking resemblances to later fantasy and science fiction adventure stories, not surprising given that Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber were among Mundy’s early readers. More recent fans included Marion Zimmer Bradley, who openly acknowledged his direct influence on one of her “Darkover” novels (although not the Tros stories in particular).The rather mysterious Talbot Mundy (William Lancaster Gribbon 1879-1940), whose yarns about his own (often shady) past may have been the prototype for much of his adventure fiction, seems to have written “Tros of Samothrace” almost as a detour. He had been asked by the publisher Bobbs-Merrill to write a novel about Cleopatra. It seemed to them like a sure-fire bestseller, something to out-do the sales of his popular “King — of the Khyber Rifles,” which they had published in 1916.It would, after all, be on a more sensational topic than his Kipling-esque tales of British soldiers keeping stiff upper lips in India and Afghanistan. (Mundy, who had legally changed his name to his most popular pseudonym while becoming a U.S. citizen in 1916, seems to have either exaggerated the time he spent in India, or else returned there under other names when he was hiding from the law, unhappy wives, etc. But he wrote about it more frequently than Africa, where he had spent considerable time; of course, he had also *served* time there…. In any case, he often offers a skeptical view of the British Empire.)Mundy eventually got around to a Cleopatra novel for Bobbs-Merrill, but not before spinning out the adventures, mostly during Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain, of a supposed minor character in the planned novel. The resulting story of “Tros of Samothrace” ran for a year (Feb. 1925-Feb. 1926) in the then highly-regarded fiction magazine “Adventure.””Tros” was broken into seven separately titled stories, published in nine installments, which gave the magazine a chance to back out, and probably avoided protests from readers about a serial that never seemed to end, but Mundy seems to have had the greater commercial potential of a novel in mind. They consisted of: #1 “Tros of Samothrace” (Feb. 10, 1925); #2 “The Enemy of Rome” (April 10); #3 “Prisoners of War” (June 10); #4 “Hostages to Luck: (Aug. 20); #5 “Admiral of Caesar’s Fleet” (Oct. 10); #6 “The Dancing Girl of Gades” (Dec. 10); and, as #7, #8, and #9 the three-part “Messenger of Destiny” (Feb. 10, 20, and 28, 1926)To my mind, “Tros” is one of the great early twentieth century adventure novels; and the hints of occult powers and “secret wisdom” add flavor without getting in the way. Mundy had just then become active in a splinter branch of the Theosophical Society; the same influences are evident in his “Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley,” written the previous year, and much of his later fiction hovers on the edge of fantasy — at least in the eyes of non-believers.The editor of “Adventure” (Arthur Sullivan Hoffmann) seems to have realized that almost anyone who had struggled in school with Caesar’s “Commentaries” (“The Gallic Wars”) was sure to smile at the idea of the story as seen from the other side — or, rather, from a third side. (One Caesar somehow forgot to mention in his propaganda dispatches home!) And in those days, having struggled with Caesar was a pretty common experience for middle-class readers, so the subject, if not quite as glamorous as the Serpent of the Nile, was hardly obscure.Bobbs-Merrill didn’t agree, or was put off by the ensuing controversy over Mundy’s portrait of Caesar as a budding dictator cultivating his image at the expense of the “barbarians.”According to Mundy, Initiates from the Mysteries of Samothrace ran afoul of Caesar while on a mission to their fellow-mystics in Gaul from their Aegean island sanctuary, and were blackmailed into spying on the mysterious Land of Britain. (A good classical dictionary would confirm the existence of the island of Samothrace and its Mysteries; although hardly Mundy’s Theosophical exposition of its beliefs, and wide-ranging connections to other “mystical orders.”)But was even the wily and ruthless Caesar a match for a man like Tros, who scrupulously honored his word? Honored it precisely and literally, that is, without regard for what Caesar, or anyone else, might have intended when he exacted the promise by threatening to kill his prisoners, including Tros’ father, Perseus….The story of Tros and his personal war with Julius Caesar was later extended in another two substantial, but shorter, novels. “Queen Cleopatra” had no magazine publication, but appeared (at last!) directly from Bobbs-Merrill in 1929 (426 pages). Instead of the Antony and Cleopatra story, it deals in part with her escape from Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar, an obscure episode in which it turns out Tros (of course) had a role. Mundy and Bobbs-Merrill later permanently parted ways (after fifteen years), with the “Tros” stories and the delayed Cleopatra novel apparently among the simmering issues.His new publisher, Century, soon merged with D. Appleton, further complicating the bibliographic record. “Tros of Samothrace” finally appeared in a revised form from by D. Appleton-Century, with a British edition from Hutchinson, in 1934. “The Purple Pirate,” a sequel to “Tros” and “Queen Cleopatra” then appeared as four stories in “Adventure” and immediately thereafter as a book from Appleton-Century (367 pages), also with a British edition, all in 1935.The complete “Tros” alone ran to a whopping 949 pages (960 in the British printing), even without the sequels. It was a work of historical fiction more on the scale of “War and Peace” than anything Bobbs-Merrill had planned, or, with “Gone With the Wind” still in the future (1936), perhaps considered practical. “Tros,” didn’t become a blockbuster bestseller, but it seems to have sold well enough for Appleton-Century to take on one of the sequels.And the book was fondly remembered by those who read it. Who could forget a character who combined mysticism and heroics, nobility and practicality, exactly as appropriate? So he wouldn’t kill prisoners, but didn’t feel it was his responsibility to find out if he could swim before cutting their bonds and tossing them overboard… And a more than slightly unlikely, but attractive, supporting cast of friendly Theosophical Druids, Victorian-style Ancient Britons (“By Lud of Lunden!”), and proto-Vikings? Or even the rather Hinduized Pythagoreanism that seems to underlie all the talk of Secret Wisdom? By this time, too, Mundy’s mostly hostile portrait of Caesar could be seen as a foreshadowing of Fascism.“Tros” was revived in complete hardcover editions by the science fiction and fantasy publisher Gnome Press in 1958 (along with “The Purple Pirate”), and, most recently by Buccaneer Books in 1995. The trade paperback edition of “Tros” from Black Mask was issued in 2005, and was more than welcome. (There was another hardcover — I think — reprinting of “The Purple Pirate.” from Amereon, in 1991.)There was also a mass-market paperback version of the whole saga, in six volumes, published in the later 1960s (see below for details), and for me they came at just the right time — I was reading Caesar in Latin, and was amused when Tros gave him a concise, accurate, and completely misleading, report on his adventures in Britain, in exactly Caesar’s own compressed style. And was praised for it.Oh yes — don’t be confused about Mundy’s novel “Caesar Dies.” It is an unrelated story about the Emperor Commodus, not the Dictator Julius, and Tros isn’t involved. (Unless I failed to notice his reincarnation, of course.)This new Kindle edition bundles together all of this material (except, of course, “Caesar Dies”). If you have a Kindle, or a Kindle app on your PC or Mac (etc., etc.), and think this sounds interesting, I urge you to treat yourself.Those are the main points.For those who might go looking for print copies, however, I’ve included some bibliographic information. There are some unpleasant surprises awaiting the unwary. Unfortunately, print copies, especially of “Tros,” have to be sorted out from among the fractionalized paperback reprints. For the mass-market paperback editions present a much more complicated picture. (One which also impinges on one of the Kindle editions.) There are a couple of points which may be relevant in this context, however.Perhaps vindicating Bobbs-Merrill’s original proposal, “Queen Cleopatra” appeared from Ace in 1962, with a cover Gault describes as “obviously redrawn from a publicity still of Elizabeth Taylor.” Beyond the desire to cash in on the publicity, there is no special connection between the book and the motion picture (ultimately released in 1963), let alone the associated scandals; just the use of some of the same historical personages. (Lud, and perhaps fear of lawsuits, be thanked, Burton wasn’t added to the cover.)In 1967, Avon Books put “Tros of Samothrace” into paperback in four volumes, as “Tros: The First Book of Tros of Samothrace” (= #1-2); “Helma: The Second Book…” (= #3-4); “Liafail: The Third Book…” (#5-6); and “Helene: The Fourth Book…” (#7-9). All of them had lovely covers by Douglas Rosa. (“Helma” and “Helene” are two of the women in Tros’ life. “Liafail,” the Irish “Stone of Destiny,” is here the name of a ship. Not the most appropriate name, one would think, besides being from the wrong branch of the Celtic languages, but philology wasn’t Mundy’s strong point.)The four volumes were followed by Avon in 1969 with “Queen Cleopatra” and in 1970 with “The Purple Pirate,” identified as “Tros of Samothrace #5” and “…#6,” respectively, on the uncredited covers (which look to me and others like the work of Jeff Jones, but seem to be attributed by some to Frank Frazetta.)Avon also issued some of Mundy’s occult / espionage / adventure stories set in modern India and Tibet, including “Om,” at about the same time — another tangle of titles we won’t get into.There was also a more recent complete print edition of the “Tros” series, published in 2009 in the UK and United States US: Leonaur Books, paperback & hardback as 6 books, corresponding to the Avon divisions (but not titles), which were Mundy’s own: “Wolves of the Tiber;” “Dragons of the North;” “Serpent of the Waves;” “City of the Eagles;” “Queen Cleopatra;” and “Purple Pirate.” (I don’t know where the NEW titles of the first four volumes came from, but they are excellent.)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The full saga available at last! By Ken The full saga available at last!(Note that the first book, _Tros_Of_Samothrace_ was itself published in multiple volumes, three to five at one time or another by one publisher to another. So far as I know, this is the first release of _Queen_Cleopatra_ and _The_Purple_Pirate_ as EBooks.)These stories are magnificent! Ignore any attempts to file them as "fantasy", they are not, they are "just" a rollicking good adventure set in the final days the Roman Republic, with the added twist that Julius Caesar is the bad Guy. (Well, for the first book, anyway.)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Grand Adventure By Douglas Vaughan I just bought this ebook, but I did read this a long time ago (like 50 years ago). I've been a long time fan of Talbot Mundy, especially the JimGrim stories. This particular trilogy is set during the time of Julius Caesar (the villain incarnate). Tros helps preserve the freedom of Britain (at least until the next century). I use to think this overlong, but given the length of modern trilogies and series, it should fit right in.
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