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36 reviews

LeClue, 2008

He was born with the gift of laughter ...
This is my first Sabatini novel (just finished it last night), but it won't be my last - I found Scaramouche excellent. Scaramouche is set during the years leading up to and including the French Revolution, and follows the exploits of one Andre Louis Moreau, a lawyer, a bastard, and a Frenchman with close connections to the ruling class. Moreau begins the story without an inkling of support ...

Adventure Classics : Graphic Classics Volume Twelve (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels)) (Graphic Classics ...

3 reviews
Sax Rohmer, Johnston McCulley, ...

Eureka Productions, 2005

Ripping good stuff! Tales of pirates, desert sorceresses, lusty women and dangerous men
The mysterious desert. The high plains. The stormy seas. The dense jungles. These are the places where actions speak louder than words, where the sharp retort of a six-gun decides who is right and who is dead, and a blind tiger stalks with preternatural senses and determination. These are the settings for Adventure Tales, a genre of literature prominent in the 1900's, in which many of the ...

Scaramouche a Romance of the French Revolution

1 review
Rafael Sabatini

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1921

Swashbuckling!
This is the quintessence of a swashbuckling novel, and one of my absolute favorites. It's got politics, fencing, romance, philosophy, and revolution, frankly, it has it all! If you want a good swashbuckling adventure I can't recommend one more!

The Sea-Hawk

12 reviews
Rafael Sabatini

Tantor Media, 2002

No Superficial Linguistic Dust Here
Having recently read several modern novels by contemporary authors, I was transported by THE SEA-HAWK back in time to an earlier style of writing and a distinctly different use of language. How many books, for instance, have you read lately that use the verb "trepan" very frequently? Didn't think so. Having found modern authors' use of language to be pretty bland and, in a few instances, ...

The Sword of Islam and Other Tales of Adventure

Wildside Press, 2008

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) was an Italian/British writer who crafted some of the greatest tales of action and adventure ever written, including "Captain Blood," "The Sea Hawk," "Scaramouche," and many more. This volume collects 14 rare Sabatini short stories (most appearing for the first time in book form). Included are: "The Sword of Islam," "The Tapestried Room," "The Baker of Rousillon," "The Blackmailer," "The Curate and the Actress," "The ...

Captain Blood: His Odyssey

34 reviews
Rafael Sabatini

Thorndike Press, 2004

If I could give it 10 stars, I would
Probably one of my favorite stories of all time, the book is far better than the hollywood version! First published in 1922, it was a national sensation and remains so popular it is republished about every 10 years or so. The action commences in England, with the first failed attempt to wrench tyrannical King James II from the throne. Dr. Peter Blood is caught in the middle because he ...

Captain Blood

LeClue, 2007

Before becoming a pirate Captain Blood was an Irish physician convicted of treason for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion. Sentenced to be transported to the Caribbean and sold into slavery on the island of Barbados. When the Spanish attack the island Dr Blood escapes and starts an carrier as a pirate of the Caribbean.

Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution, 2008

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to be deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess the virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason, announces himself the ...

THE BLACK SWAN

1 review
RAFAEL SABATINI

Houghton Mifflin, 1932

Among Sabatini's best.
The Black Swan (1932) is among the author's later works, not the best, but certainly among his better novels. Although perhaps more sophisticated and better written than his earlier and more popular works, The Black Swan also lacks much of the swashbuckling action and intricate plot twists that made Sabatini a household name in the 1920s. Oddly for a pirate novel, most of the story takes place on ...

The Life of Cesare Borgia
Sabatini, Rafael

Wildside Press, 2003

Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history's villans -- there are foul rumors that fly around the man's history, dispicable tales of dispicable acts: there is litytle he has not been accused of, in fact. Rafael Sabatini -- famed novelist, author of such deservedly renowned classics as Scaramouche_ and Captain Blood_ -- had a very sifferent idea of who Cesare Borgia was. Sabatini may be right: Borgia may have been one of history's great ...

Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini

Houghton Mifflin Co., 9999

Date not stated

chivalry

1 review
rafael sabatini

Houghton Mifflin, 1935

Good historical romance
This is another of Sabatini's historical romances. It is not quite up to Scaramouche or several others but, if you like Sabatini, you will enjoy this. Like many of his stories, the romantic relationship is complicated but all turns out right in the end. It is set in Italiy in the same era as his Bellarion, a better novel. If you like Sabatini, you will enjoy this.

Master-At-Arms
Rafael Sabatini

Ballantine Books, 1977

The Romantic Prince
Rafael Sabatini

Grosset & Dunlap, 1929

Pictorial end papers, Cloth.

The Sea-Hawk

LeClue, 2008

The story is set over the years 1588-1593, and concerns a retired sea-faring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother. After being forced to serve as a slave on a Spanish galley, Sir Oliver is liberated by Barbary pirates. He joins the pirates, gaining the name "Sakr-el-Bahr", the hawk of the sea, and swears vengeance against his brother.

Scaramouche Illustrated with Scenes From the Photoplay, a Rex Ingram Metro Production Starring Alice Terry, ...
Rafael Sabatini

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923

14th impression, March, 1923. b/w stills from the movie.

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