DRUMS OF KHARTOUM

by Chloe Gartner ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 17, 1967

The title places this novel very readily around the siege and fall of Khartoum in 1884 which Gordon, the mystic-activist, until recently a rather neglected understudy for Lawrence, was unable to prevent. He figures sketchily in these annals which mobilize quite a few characters within the British compound while Mahdi and his Dervish troops whirl outside. ""In the name of Allah the Compassionate"" we will be brief about the story of Victoria Hubbard, its imperious heroine with anti-Imperial notions (the Empire has done nothing for Africa); the two men who fall in love with her, a major and a doctor; their previous romantic entanglements (Victoria left her coward husband; the major has had two married but not too well loved women; the doctor a devoted native woman); etc. etc. Of its kind, a genus which flirts with both history and romance at the same time, it is readably all right, although an occasional phrase such as ""Come off it"" is a dead giveaway.

Pub Date: May 17, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION