Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (1857-1935)An English author born in Swanscombe, Kent, England, most of his works were issued under the name Edwin Lester Arnold. Most of his childhood was spent in India which may have been the source of the theme of reincarnation in some of his fictional works. He was a writer of non-fiction: A Summer Holiday in Scandinavia (1877), Coffee: Its Cultivation and Profit (1886), Bird Life in England (1887), England as She Seems: Being Selections from the Notes of an Arab Hadji (1888), On the Indian Hills: or, Coffee-planting in Southern India (1893), The Soul of the Beast (1960); and fiction: Phra the Phoenician (US 1890, UK 1910), Rutherford the Twice-Born (1892), The Constable of St. Nicholas (1894), The Story of Ulla and Other Tales (1895), Lepidus the Centurion: A Roman of Today (1901), Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905). Lieutenant Gullivar Jones (also titled Gulliver of Mars) is thought to have inspired the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series. FictionNon-fiction |