Yasmini the Incomparable

by Talbot Mundy, Brian Taves (Introduction)

Introducing pulp fiction's first great femme fatale, the enduring creation of a master storyteller!Of his most alluring female character—whom he described as having Indian, Russian, and Scandinavian blood—Talbot Mundy “She is of the East and the West, very terribly endowed with all the charms of either and the brains of both.” This book reprints the 1914 novelette “A Soldier and a Gentleman,” which introduced Yasmini to readers, and the 1915 thriller "The Winds of the World," in which the secrets of India attract international schemers who plot with seeming impunity—while Yasmini uses her wits and her charms to secure power and influence. Mundy’s first truly memorable novel teems with action, intrigue, and melodrama!TALBOT MUNDY (1879-1940) took up fiction writing after spending many restless years as a globe-trotting wanderer of dubious reputation. He sold exotic, imaginative stories to several rough-paper magazines but reserved his best work for Adventure, the “Dean of the Pulps.” Mundy’s most memorable protagonists included Jimgrim, Tros of Samothrace, and King of the Khyber Rifles. He died in 1940 after five years of scripting the Jack Armstrong radio show.This is the eighth book in the ten-volume "Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction" series.

216 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 2019

About the author

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) was an English-born American 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.