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While some of this work was written by Lamb while he was still contributing to Adventure, the majority of it falls after that period of his life. From the 1930s onward Lamb concentrated heavily on screenplays and his history books, but still published steadily in magazines, including Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic, and a handful of others. Lamb's Collier's Writing Lamb's work for Collier's is similar to his fiction for Adventure in that there are the exotic settings, the treachery, and even the action. The length, though, is shorter, perforce making the stories less involved. The biggest difference is that all of Lamb's Collier's tales involve romance. They are short pieces wherein valiant hero and maid come together despite their differences, as in "Wolf Meat" or escape a sultan's clutches, as in "Azadi's Jest." Taken one at a time I found the stories enjoyable, but they began to feel repetitious, something Lamb's Adventure fiction doesn't suffer. Lamb strives to present different circumstances and situations for his hero and heroine to find each other, and even succeeds, but there is a sameness despite the differences. None of this material has been reprinted in book form; if you want to read it, your best bet is your local library. Many libraries have preserved copies of Collier's Magazine. Lamb's Work for The Saturday Evening Post Between 1944 and 1957 Lamb published almost 30 pieces within The Saturday Evening Post. A number of these were articles. Others were short stories set in the contemporary east. A few were historical fiction, though unfortunately you have to wade through an awkward framing story to get to them. Despite this, one of them, Secret of Victory, is an exciting tale of Attila the Hun's incursion into Europe, two rival leaders who opposed him, and the Roman consul that had to keep them from killing each other instead of Attila. None of this material has been reprinted in book form; if you want to read it, your best bet is your local library. Many libraries have preserved copies of The Saturday Evening Post. Other Magazine Work All I know about MOST of the rest of the work listed here are their titles. The National Geographic articles should be easy to track down, but I'm unfamiliar with most of the other magazines.
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