The big book of swashbuckling adventure
Subtitle: classic tales of dashing heroes, dastardly villains, and daring escapes
By: selected and introduced by Lawrence Ellsworth
Contributors: Schick, Lawrence, editor
Edition: First Pegasus Books edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781605986500
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers; Adventure stories; Fiction
Description: A delicious, pulse-quickening compendium of thrilling rescues, daring escapes, dreadful peril, and glorious adventure, masterfully curated by an editor who wields his pen as skillfully as any swashbuckler ever swung a sword.
Table of contents: title: Sword and mitre  -- Rafael Sabatini; title: The sin of the Bishop of Modenstein  -- Anthony Hope; title: Pirates' gold  -- H. Bedford Jones; title: The queen's rose  -- Sidney Levett-Yeats; title: Cheerly o and cheerly o  -- by Jeffery Farnol; title: Señor Zorro pays a visit  -- Johnston McCulley; title: How the brigadier played for a kingdom  -- Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Robin Hood meets Guy of Gisborne  -- Pierce Egan; title: The buccaneer's last shot  -- Farnham Bishop; title: White plume on the mountain  -- Alexandre Dumas; title: The King of Spain's will  -- John Bloundelle-Burton -- The cabaret de la liberté / -- Baroness Orczy; title: The bride of Jagannath  -- Harold Lamb; title: The pirate sea  -- Lilian Nicholson; title: Captain Blood's dilemma  -- Rafael Sabatini; title: Crillon's stake  -- Stanley J. Weyman; title: The black death  -- Marion Polk Angellotti; title: The fight for Black Bartlemy's treasure -- Jeffery Farnol.