Adventure Stories from the Strand

This anthology reprints adventure fiction first published in The Strand Magazine between the 1890s and the 1940s. The selection includes imperial and military tales, a Brigadier Gerard exploit by Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells's story of land ironclads, and later pieces by writers such as Somerset Maugham, Edgar Wallace, and Graham Greene, among others. Settings run from colonial frontiers and wartime Europe to English roads and drawing rooms into which violence intrudes. There is no single hero or plot. The volume shows how one popular monthly treated danger, ingenuity, and the unexpected across half a century of short fiction.

Bound in green cloth, covers blocked in black and gold with a picture. Dark green endpapers and page tops. Gold slipcase.