The Nine Unknown is a 1923 novel by Talbot Mundy. Originally serialised in Adventure magazine, it concerns the Nine Unknown Men, a secret society founded by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka around 270 BC to preserve and develop knowledge that would be dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. The nine unknown men were entrusted with...More
Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
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The Nine Unknown is a 1923 novel by Talbot Mundy. Originally serialised in Adventure magazine, it concerns the Nine Unknown Men, a secret society founded by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka around 270 BC to preserve and develop knowledge that would be dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. The nine unknown men were entrusted with guarding nine books of secret knowledge.
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