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Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 1879-1940) was a world-traveling Englishman and, before he found writing, a scoundrel with a rap sheet virtually as long as his future literary output-fraud, impersonation, swindling, adultery, bigamy, imprisonment,... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Nine unknown men are tasked with preserving and protecting knowledge that would be dangerous for mankind if it were used by the wrong people. There are nine books of secret knowledge that must be guarded and kept from falling into the wrong hands. The unknowns are the embodiment... Read Full Overview

First established by an ancient emperor, The Nine Unknown is a secret society of men founded to protect knowledge that would be a danger to the human race should it fall into the wrong hands. Entrusted with guarding the existing knowledge as well the pursuit of new understandings... Read Full Overview

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 1879-1940) was a world-traveling Englishman and, before he found writing, a scoundrel with a rap sheet virtually as long as his future literary output-fraud, impersonation, swindling, adultery, bigamy, imprisonment,... Read Full Overview

Nine unknown men are tasked with preserving and protecting knowledge that would be dangerous for mankind if it were used by the wrong people. There are nine books of secret knowledge that must be guarded and kept from falling into the wrong hands. The unknowns are the embodiment... Read Full Overview

First established by an ancient emperor, The Nine Unknown is a secret society of men founded to protect knowledge that would be a danger to the human race should it fall into the wrong hands. Entrusted with guarding the existing knowledge as well the pursuit of new understandings... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

First established by an ancient emperor, The Nine Unknown is a secret society of men founded to protect knowledge that would be a danger to the human race should it fall into the wrong hands. Entrusted with guarding the existing knowledge as well the pursuit of new understandings... Read Full Overview

First established by an ancient emperor, The Nine Unknown is a secret society of men founded to protect knowledge that would be a danger to the human race should it fall into the wrong hands. Entrusted with guarding the existing knowledge as well the pursuit of new understandings... Read Full Overview