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Beau Geste

First published in 1924, Beau Geste tells the story of a stolen sapphire and three brothers, who consequently join the Foreign Legion. Michael ‘Beau’ Geste, as his nickname suggests, represents honour and bravery in the midst of deceit and treachery. An action-packed adventure, much of the plot is set in French North Africa where the Geste brothers have to contend with both a mutiny in their ranks and the attacks of the Touaregs. The novel has given rise to many films, most notably the 1939 version starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland, and a stage production with Laurence Olivier in the title role.

Running Time: 15 h 00 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-1-78198-379-9
Cat. no.:	NA0515
Edited by:	Sarah Butcher
BISAC:	FIC004000
BIC:	FC
Released:	September 21

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Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas has narrated over 300 audiobooks, including titles by Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mervyn Peake, Bram Stoker and many more. He has received particular critical acclaim for his performances of Jupiter’s Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter by Ted Simon, Flanagan’s Run by Tom McNab, and Gerald Durrell’s memoirs A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Beasts in My Belfry and The Aye-Aye and I (all available on Naxos AudioBooks). He has won over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been nominated for several Audies. He was honoured with an AudioFile Golden Voice lifetime achievement award in 2022.

Rupert has also lent his voice to numerous cartoons, including Mr Bean, Robotboy and Bob the Builder and has performed in over 30 radio productions, including The Gemini Apes, The Glittering Prizes and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He spent 18 months in the West End performing in the comedy Stones in his Pockets.

He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Titles read by Rupert Degas

Titles read by Rupert Degas: The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (unabridged); The Aye-Aye and I (unabridged); Beasts in My Belfry (unabridged); Beau Geste (unabridged); The Canterville Ghost (unabridged); The Complete Short Stories (unabridged); Dracula’s Guest and Other Stories (unabridged); Dreaming of Jupiter (unabridged); The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (unabridged); Flanagan’s Run (abridged); Flanagan’s Run (unabridged); Gormenghast (abridged); Jupiter’s Travels (unabridged); A Long Day in a Short Life (unabridged); Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (unabridged); Napoleon – In a Nutshell (unabridged); The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (unabridged); Restoration (abridged); The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (selections); South (unabridged); A Tale of One January (unabridged); Titus Awakes (abridged); Titus Alone (abridged); Titus Groan (abridged); The Trial (unabridged); Walden, and Civil Disobedience (unabridged); The Whispering Land (unabridged); A Zoo in My Luggage (unabridged)

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This 1924 classic has been adapted for three films, two radio plays, and a stage play (not including parodies), but this audiobook still manages to provide surprises. Rupert Degas’s performance is not among them; we have come to expect excellence from him, and he delivers. The three Geste brothers are to some extent aspects of a single personality, and they have similar voices here, but everyone else is persuasively distinguished by tone and accent. Even when the story slows down (and for an action novel it can be quite slow), Degas keeps the pace up and carries us along. The best-known film version is fairly faithful to the original story but leaves out much of the detail of life in the French Foreign Legion and the desert.

D.M.H., AudioFile

P.C. Wren

Beau Geste

Read by Rupert Degas

unabridged

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