by Talbot Mundy · Wildside Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781434481368
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«The Nine Unknown» is the adventure novel by Talbot Mundy, published by Wildside Press in paperback (362 pages, in English).
The novel starts from a secret society founded by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka around 270 BC to preserve knowledge dangerous to humanity. Nine guardians guard nine books of forbidden knowledge, while Father Cyprian, who has found them, wants to destroy them and other characters try to access their contents.
The work is the twelfth installment of the Jimgrim/Ramsden/Ommony series. It was originally published in 1923; the present Wildside Press edition is from 2007.
For readers of adventure, mystery and classic pulp, set in India with a historical background.
Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.
