Aimard, Gustave
Entry updated 29 January 2024. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of French author Olivier Gloux (1818-1883), author of a large number of adventures set in the American West, many of them published in English in the Aimard's Tales of Indian Life sequence. Of those translated into English, two have been noted as being of genre interest: L'Eclaireur (1859; trans Lascelles Wraxall as The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City 1861), a Lost Race tale; and L'Araucan (undated; trans Lascelles Wraxall 1862 as Last of the Incas: A Romance; vt The Last of the Incas 1891). [JC]
Olivier Gloux
born Paris: 13 September 1818
died Paris: 20 June 1883
works
- L'Eclaireur (Paris: Amyot, 1859) [hb/]
- The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City (London: Ward, Lock, 1861) [trans of the above by Lascelles Wraxall: pb/]
- L'Araucan (Paris: Alexandre Cadot, undated) [hb/]
- Last of the Incas: A Romance (London: Ward, Lock, 1862) [trans of the above by Lascelles Wraxall: pb/]
- The Last of the Incas (New York: Munro, 1891) [vt of the above: pb/]
- Last of the Incas: A Romance (London: Ward, Lock, 1862) [trans of the above by Lascelles Wraxall: pb/]
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