Rafael Sabatini Books Published Before 1921 Rafael Sabatini Books Published Before 1921 By Stephen Darley Rafael Sabatini achieved his fame and significantly increased his readership with the publication in 1921 of his novel of the French revolution which he titled Scaramouche . Prior to Scaramouche he had written nineteen books, 13 of which were historical or romantic novels about characters that were set in various periods of historical significance beginning with The Lovers of Yvonne in 1902. During that period, he also wrote two biographies&151;one on Cesare Borgia and the other on Torquemada, who was the head of the Spanish Inquisition. The other four books were collections of short stories. Two of these books, Justice of the Duke and Banner of the Bull, were about Cesare Borgia, and the other two, which he called Historical Night's Entertainment, contained real historical incidents which he made into fictional accounts of the events in question. There is an extensive supply of Sabatini books written after Scaramouche, all of which were first published in the UK by Hutchinson and Co.

and in the US by Houghton Mifflin with one exception, The Reaping which was published by The Readers Library in 1929. Therefore, many beginning collectors and admirers of Sabatini assume that any Sabatini book published in the US by Houghton Mifflin or in the UK by Hutchinson must be a first edition. That this is not the case will be evident from the information contained in this article. Publishing History of the 19 Books The purpose of this essay is to clarify the publishing history of the nineteen Sabatini books published prior to 1921. I will present the books in chronological order and give the publishers name, the publishing date and the title of the book. I will also provide information on the editions of these first nineteen books that were first published by Houghton Mifflin even when the Houghton Mifflin edition is not the first US edition. Finally, I will present some specific details about some of the books to try to sort out the confusion created by Houghton Mifflin when they published these books in their various editions.

I will attempt to clarify which of the editions published by Houghton Mifflin are US first editions, Houghton Mifflin first editions or a new and unusual printing of one of the books by Houghton Mifflin. THE LOVERS OF YVONNE First UK: The Snare published in 1917 by Martin Secker First US: The Snare published in 1917 by J.P. Lippincott First Houghton Mifflin published in 1922 see below HISTORICAL NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT 1ST SERIES First UK: Historical Night's Entertainment 1st Series published in 1917 by Martin Secker First US: Historical Night's Entertainment 1st Series published in 1917 by J.P. Lippincott First Houghton Mifflin published in 1924 see below HISTORICAL NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT 2ND SERIES First UK: Historical Night's Entertainment 2nd Series published in 1919 by Hutchinson First US: Historical Night's Entertainment 2nd Series published in 1919 by J.P.

Lippincott First Houghton Mifflin published in 1924 see below Observations About List Based on the above publishing history, the following observations about the list can be made. The UK first editions are published by six different publishers (Pearson, Grant Richards, Eveleigh Nash, Hutchinson, Stanley Paul and Martin Secker) and the US first editions are published by four different publishers (Putnam, Brentano's, Lippincott and Houghton Mifflin) Two of the nineteen books have a different title in the US edition as compared to the UK edition (The Lovers of Yvonne and Anthony Wilding) Houghton Mifflin published nine of the nineteen books in the US as first editions but at a much later date than the UK edition was first published in England.

A good example of this is Bardelys the Magnificent which was first published in the UK in 1906 but was not published in the US by Houghton Mifflin until 1924 Three of the editions were issued without a dust jacket (Lovers of Yvonne, Suitors of Yvonne and UK edition of Tavern Knight) One book (Justice of the Duke) was never published in the US under that title. However, three of the stories in that book were included in the 1924 first Houghton Mifflin edition of Historical Night's Entertainment Series 2 as well as a volume of the Writings of Sabatini which was published in 34 volumes by Houghton Mifflin beginning in 1924. Houghton Mifflin Information All of the first nineteen books, except for The Suitors of Yvonne and Justice of the Duke, were published in the US by Houghton Mifflin between 1922 (The Snare) and 1927 (The Tavern Knight), which was subsequent to the publishing of Scaramouche.

From the above list, it is obvious that about half of the Houghton Mifflin books are US first editions and the rest are not. There are nine US first editions published by Houghton Mifflin (Tavern Knight, Bardelys, Trampling…, Love-at-Arms, …Motley, Saint Martin's…, Lion's Skin, Strolling Saint and Gates of Doom). LIPPINCOTT BOOKS The last five books on this list, which were published in the United States by Lippincott, were also later published by Houghton Mifflin, but that edition is not the first US edition and should not be purchased or collected as such. It is interesting to note that the UK publisher of four of these five books is the publishing company of Martin Secker. Sabatini apparently worked at Martin Secker during this period and they published four of his books. For clarification purposes, the Houghton Mifflin publishing information on these five books is as follows. Houghton Mifflin published The Sea Hawk in 1923 with a black binding and orange letters and with the 1923 date on the title page and no date on the copyright page.

The Houghton Mifflin dust jacket for The Sea Hawk shows a picture of Sakr-el-Bahr, the Sea Hawk, in an Arab costume standing on the deck of his ship next to a woman The Banner of the Bull was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1923 with a red binding and gold lettering and with 1923 on the title page and no date on the copyright page. The dust jacket for that book has a picture of Cesare Borgia on a horse and in the background is his banner containing the picture of a bull. The Snare was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1922 with a red binding and gold lettering and with 1922 on the title page and no date on the copyright page. The Snare dust jacket is rather unique for a Sabatini book in that it has text on the front cover with a small black line picture of Sabatini and a small black line picture of a swordsman. Confusion is also added because Grosset and Dunlap reprinted The Snare with a color pictorial jacket that is widely available.

Houghton Mifflin published The Historical Night's Entertainment Series 1 and 2 in 1924 with a red binding and containing gold lettering. This edition had the 1924 date on the title page and no date on the copyright page. I have not been able to locate either of these editions in a dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin added confusion to these books by issuing a second edition in 1924 of these same books. This time they are together in a cardboard slipcover and also have the 1924 date on the title page. The bindings are also red but are just slightly different in terms of the gold lettering and gold design on the spine. Series 2 states "To this edition of the Second Series of The Historical Night's Entertainment are added three stories from the volume originally published under the title of The Justice of the Duke." Biographies Houghton Mifflin also published the two Sabatini biographies, Cesare Borgia and Torquemada, which were first published in the US by Brentano's in 1912 and 1913.

The Houghton Mifflin publishing history is somewhat confusing but is important to be understood in order to distinguish the various editions. The Life of Cesare Borgia was first published in the US by Brentano's in 1912. Houghton Mifflin published that same edition, not identified as revised, in 1924. That original unrevised edition had the date of 1924 on the title page and no date on the copyright page. This would be consistent with other books that were not published as a first US edition by Houghton Mifflin and were not copyrighted by them. There is even more confusion with this book because in 1924 Houghton Mifflin issued a first revised edition of this book and labeled it as a revised edition. That revised edition has the 1924 date on both the title page and the copyright page. It is clear that Houghton Mifflin did copyright the revised edition in 1924, obviously with Sabatini's permission. The changes in the revised edition are minimal but enough to enable Houghton to change its designation.

The publishing history of Cesare Borgia becomes even more confusing because in 1930 Houghton Mifflin, through their Riverside Library, issued a revised edition of this book with a 1930 date on the title page and a 1924 date on the copyright page and with a much different dust jacket. This 1930 edition has a dust jacket that is red and black with an outline of the profile of Cesare Borgia in black line. The earlier dust jacket has a colored portrait of Cesare Borgia facing to the front. Because there are dates on both the title and copyright page, this 1930 edition is often assumed to be a first edition, and has been offered as such by unknowing booksellers. However, it is only the first printing of the Houghton Mifflin Riverside Library edition. Torquemada, which is the second biography written by Sabatini prior to 1921, also has a confusing publishing history with Houghton Mifflin. Brentano's published the original US first edition in 1913. Houghton did not publish any edition of the original unrevised book.

They did, however, publish a revised edition of Torquemada in 1924 with a 1924 date on the title page and no date on the copyright page. The Autograph Edition of The Writings of Sabatini, which also came out in 1924, also had a 1924 date on the title page and no date on the copyright page and is a revised edition. For some reason, Houghton Mifflin never copyrighted the revised edition. In 1930, Houghton's Riverside Library also issued a revised edition of Torquemada with the 1930 date on the title page and no date on the copyright page. I have not been able to locate a copy of this edition in a jacket so I am not certain if it is different from the 1924 edition, which has a brown jacket with text and a black line portrait of Torquemada rather than a color illustration. As in the case of The Life of Cesare Borgia, this edition is the first printing of the Riverside Library edition and is neither the first US edition nor the first Houghton Mifflin edition.

The Writings of Sabatini Most of the 19 books published prior to Scaramouche were included in The Writings of Rafael Sabatini, both the autographed edition and the definitive edition. This series, which includes most of the Sabatini books published prior to 1937, was published in 34 volumes by Houghton Mifflin beginning in 1924 and ending in 1937. The Writings have numbered volumes beginning with Scaramouche which was Volume I. Eleven of the first 19 books as published by The Writings have different publishing dates than the first editions as listed above. For example, The Shame of Motley as published in The Writings has a date of 1926 on the title page and 1926 on the copyright page. To the uninitiated, it would thus appear to be the first edition of The Shame of Motley. However, we know from the list that the first US edition, which is also the first Houghton Mifflin edition, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1924 and printed in England.

Even Scaramouche, which was first published in 1921 by Houghton Mifflin, is published in The Writings with a 1924 date on the title page and a 1924 date on the copyright page. It is possible that the nine books of the first 19 books, which were first published in the US by Houghton Mifflin between 1924 and 1927, were published in anticipation of being included by Houghton Mifflin in The Writings of Rafael Sabatini. Anthony Wilding Anthony Wilding was first published in the UK under that title in 1910. In that same year, Putnam published the book in the US under the title of Arms and the Maid. This first US edition is very difficult to find and is impossible to find with a dust jacket. In 1924, Houghton Mifflin published this same book with no revisions under the title of Mistress Wilding. The Houghton Mifflin edition has the 1924 date on both the title page and the copyright page.

The Houghton Mifflin edition is available in dust jacket and is a very collectible book. It is assumed by many collectors to be the first US edition because of the presence of the 1924 dates on both pages. However, that distinction goes to the Putnam edition of Arms and the Maid. The Houghton Mifflin edition with the 1924 date on both pages is simply the first Houghton Mifflin edition. CONCLUSIONS A Sabatini collector should be very careful when attempting to categorize any of the Houghton Mifflin editions of the first nineteen Sabatini books. As is demonstrated above, it is extremely easy to get confused and to assume a Houghton Mifflin book is a first US edition when, in fact, it is something else. Accurate understanding will help to make knowledgeable buyers and will hopefully help keep collectors from making mistakes when they purchase books. The interested Sabatini collector will find that it is pretty much impossible to find dust jackets for any of the Sabatini books published before 1921.

I have been unable to find any of these nineteen books in first edition dust jackets for any of the editions published before 1921 and am unable to locate any other collector who possesses them. The Houghton Mifflin first editions published after 1921 are generally available in dust jacket, with the exception of Love-at-Arms and The Shame of Motley, which are extremely rare. It is obviously, therefore, the rare collector who has any of the UK editions of these nineteen books in jacket and equally rare to find any of the books in dust jacket that were published in the US by Lippincott, Brentano's or Putnam. We can only keep looking. Return to Articles & Images Last updated 19 March 2008. Review Copyright ©2006 Stephen Darley. Any concerns or problems about this site, please contact rimfire . Scaramouche Scaramouche (1923) Directed by Rex Ingram. Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone (127 min.) "He was born with a gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad." So begins Scaramouche. Do teenage girls read Rafael Sabatini anymore?

Scarmouche, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk? I came to Sabatini through Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, but I tore through many of Sabatini's other 38 swashbuckling novels, (the word refers to the clash of sword fighting) which occupy that thin ledge between serious and trashy fiction. Sabatini's honorable, outcast (through no fault of their own) heroes were the romantic creations of the "modern Dumas" who, unlike Dumas, wrote in an era when he realized his books might be adapted for the screen. Adventure stories go back as far as The Illiad and The Odyssey, and continue through the stories of King Arthur and the Round Table. The 19th century brought a vigorous style epitomized by writers like Sir Walter Scott, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. Their tales became staples of the stage, and then, the movies. Italian-born Sabatini wrote in his mother's native English because he thought the best adventure stories were written in that language. He was the son, possibly illegitimate, of an opera singing couple.

These two themes, of doubtful parentage and an itinerant theatrical life, are themes of Scaramouche (1921) his first great success. Captain Blood followed in 1922 (and was filmed for the first time in 1924). After the triumph of the movie Scaramouche, earlier novels were reprinted, including The Sea Hawk (1915) filmed in 1924 with Milton Sills and Bardelys the Magnificent (1906) starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman, directed by King Vidor in 1926. The latter film is lost, except for a brief sequence Vidor included in his Hollywood satire, Show People . Sabatini strove for historical accuracy, "To produce historical romance of any value, it is necessary first to engage in researches so exhaustive as to qualify one to write a history of the epoch in which the romance is set." He did write several non-fiction books about subjects he romanticized in fiction. "Phillipe!

Oh God in Heaven, don't you hear me?" Rex Ingram was one of the few silent era directors who exerted complete artistic control over his films, and in the twenties was considered an equal of Griffith and von Stroheim. He worked with a loyal company of cast and crew, including John F. Seitz, his gifted cinematographer. Ingram pays meticulous attention to detail and artfully casts even the smallest parts. Seitz's painterly lighting and photographic effects were innovative and admired. His distinguished career continued until 1960, and he photographed many of Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder's important films. Ingram (and screenwriter June Mathis) made a star of Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) but the star and director clashed during their next film together, The Conquering Power. Valentino decamped to another studio, and Mathis followed him. Legend has it that Ingram declared he could make a star of any old extra, and chose Ramon Samaniego. Later in his life, Novarro would dispute the serendipitous story of his discovery.

If Ingram did indeed threaten to make an unknown the equal of Valentino, he selected his successor with care, since Novarro had been featured in several films, and had a letter of introduction to the director. Metro decided Ramon's Mexican surname was too difficult to pronounce and pulled "Novarro" out of thin air. He remains a familiar face from the silent era because he was shortly to star in the title role of one of the most frequently revived silent films, Ben-Hur. Andre-Louis Moreau is accorded a cold reception. Novarro's first splashy part was Rupert of Hentzau in Ingram's The Prisoner of Zenda. The hero, Rudolph Rassendyll, was played by Broadway matinee idol Lewis Stone. Alice Terry's Princess Flavia was exquisite, but passive, like most of her heroines. Stone lacked fire as a leading man, so Novarro's leering villain stole the show (if not the kingdom of Ruritania). Ingram was Novarro's mentor, and the films they made together paved his path to stardom. He and Alice Terry became Novarro's life long friends. Novarro's publicity ghettoized him as a post-Valentino Latin Lover.

He may have lacked Valentino's memorable streak of passionate cruelty, but he was a more sensitive actor, and romantic in an understated way. Novarro was gay, although he cooperated with studio publicists' necessary fantasies of "a sweetheart in Mexico" when required. He had a long career stretching through the early talkies (he had a pleasant singing voice, and introduced "The Pagan Love Song" on screen in 1930) to featured roles in 60s tv shows like The Wild, Wild West. His sordid murder in 1968 resulted in an unpleasant posthumous fame. Andre says farewell. (This still illustrates that while Novarro's costumes and some of the women's were correctly in period, Miss Terry's tend to conform to 1920s standards of beauty rather than the 1790s.) Ingram's great films all starred his delicately beautiful wife, Alice Terry. Terry is lovely, but her emotions are contained; she is a specialist of the tremblingly suppressed gasp and sigh, her eyes brimful of unshed tears. In an interview with George C.

Pratt from George Eastman House in 1973, she was rather dismissive of her career. She said of her first starring role (in Ingram's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) "Oh, I was just so glad when that picture was over! It was so difficult for me, because it was my first big picture, and it all seemed to be so important. And, you know, I thought, I'm going to ruin the whole thing! I mean, I certainly couldn't do the acting that some other people did. So then, I was always 'adequate.' Every time I read a review, I was 'adequate.'" Alice Terry as she appears in Scaramouche. Much of The Prisoner of Zenda's cast returned for Scaramouche, set during the turbulence of the French Revolution. When a young law student sees his friend murdered by a foppishly cruel aristocrat for his "dangerous gift of eloquence" the personal becomes political, and he is soon on the run from authorities. Novarro cuts a dashing figure, as he joins a nomadic commedia dell'arte troupe playing the clown Scaramouche, and later becomes a fencing master.

Lewis Stone seems more inspired by villainy than he had been as a hero, casting his roving eye at a succession of pert beauties and coldly slaying rebellious populists. Terry's Aline wins audience sympathy slowly, as her flirtation with Stone's Marquis makes her seem mercenary and unworthy of the hero's high regard. Scaramouche was a big production, budgeted at over a million dollars, with 30 principals, and 10,000 extras. "An army of workmen built a whole French village which covered 60 acres and which was faithfully reproduced to cobble-paved streets and shop windows filled with actual wares. Hundreds of thousand of yards of muslins, satins, brocades and velvets were required in the making of the gorgeous costumes worn by the actors and actressesï¿½fifty five persons spent four months making the costumes." The surging mob scenes in which Paris is gripped by The Terror are genuinely terrifying. The insensate mob in action. Ingram was both producer and director, collaborating closely with the scenario writer and cinematographer as well as the editor and composer of the score..

The imprint on each title card reads "Rex Ingram Metro" and during the seven months of filming, no one from the front office dared to interfere, appreciating his ability to create lavish, profitable spectacles. DeWitt Bodeen, who profiled the careers of Novarro, Rex Ingram and Alice Terry for Films in Review (Nov. 1967, Feb. and March 1975) wrote of his own youthful experience seeing Scaramouche: "More than ever, the music that accompanied Scaramouche was an essential part of its public presentation--not just 'La Marseillaise', which shadowed the mob scenes, dominating the film's ending, but in scenes where there was a secret menace underlying a Mozart theme that provided a warning of imminent treachery.

I know when I saw the roadshow of Scaramouche at the White Theatre in Fresno, California, an awesome suspense gripped the audience when those deceptively sweet Mozartian notes sounded, while the sheer ecstasy of 'La Marseillaise', as played by a full symphony orchestra, when the liberty-crazed mob, led by Rose Dione, swept through the streets of Paris in a murderous carmagnole, made the walls and ceilings of the auditorium quiver with sound. I have often wished that those who are too young to have seen a film exhibited precisely as the big ones were in the days of the silents could see a picture like Scaramouche as it was shown to the accompaniment of a full orchestra; they might then realize how very little the invention of sound actually brought to the film medium for the silent movies had a very special eloquence." I'm happy to say that in the 25 years since those words were written, it has become easier to experience the blissful union of silent movies and live music. Fittingly, Scaramouche's opening line is the epitaph on Sabatini's tombstone.

* (The entire text of Scaramouche is posted online at (!) A new print with a splendid orchestral score by Jeffrey Mark Silverman just premiered on TCM. Grapevine Video sells a print that is 24 minutes shorter, with a different score. Sabatini quote and the brief history of adventure novels from The Romance of Adventure by Brian Taves. Photo of Rex Ingram from the September, 1929 Photoplay magazine. All other photographs, captions and production quote from the "Photoplay Edition"--14th impression, March, 1923. Lettie E. Rogers received it as a Christmas gift in 1926. A couple of years ago, I gave a number of copies of Scaramouche as presents (to teenaged girls) including a couple of "Photoplay Editions" one of which had a different set of photos than this one.

At the time, I couldn't justify keeping both, but now, I'm a bit sorry!) c.moviedivaUpdatedAugust 2002 Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, First Edition - AbeBooks Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, First Edition You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 61 1 ISBN 10: 1593082428 ISBN 13: 9781593082420 Used S Mass Market Paperback First Edition Quantity Available: 1 Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco (1948) Used Soft Cover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1948. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. First Edition. Wraps have light wear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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(1945) Used Pocket Paperback First Edition Quantity Available: 1 Published by bantam book, (1945) Used Paperback First Edition Rafael Sabatini, John Cloy (Introduction) Published by Barnes & Noble Classics (2005) ISBN 10: 1593082428 ISBN 13: 9781593082420 New Paperback First Edition Published by Grosset & Dunlap [1924], New York (1924) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Grosset & Dunlap [1924], New York, 1924. The novel bthat made this author famous. Solid clean tight copy of HB 1st with jacket. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4, 392 pp, full-pg b/w photos from the 1923 film. Good+ unmarked except for a few owner stamps inside, rear hinge cracked; in Fair+ unclipped jacket inside-taped around the edgewear Hardcover in blue cloth boards w black titling, in tan jacket w color illus.

No edition stated, assumed 1st printing. Bookseller Inventory # 24072 Published by Phoenix Book Company, London Used Hardcover First Edition Published by bantam book, (1945) Used Paperback First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: 1st Paperback Printing. Bantam Books #5, 1948, 1st paperback printing, rare US historical vintage paperback, nice copy, bright and firm, a light bit of crinkling to cover, some age to inside pages, still VG+. Vintage Paperback. Bookseller Inventory # 000005682 Published by Hutchinson, London (1927) Used Hardcover First Edition Published by Bantam, New York (1945) Used Mass Market Paperback First Edition Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Bantam, New York, 1945. Mass Market Paperback. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition.

Book has 1/2" tear where cover meets head of spine, with minor wear to extremeties and one spot on top edge of front cover; pages lightly tanned, but clean and unmarked, and binding is square and tight ; covers are just starting to delaminate at corners of front cover, but no lamination missing and it is only lightly rubbed, leaving the attractive cover bright and clear. A classic and marvelous adventure in a paperback edition that is amazingly nice for being over 60 years old---I guess appropriate for a timeless tale. Historical Fiction/Adventure. Bookseller Inventory # 000285 Scaramouche: Rafael Sabatini: 9781434468154: Amazon.com: Books Rafael Sabatini Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Delightfully courtly, flowery but not dated, Sabatini's period romances--Scaramouche unfolds over the years leading up to the French Revolution--were deservedly popular when originally published, during the 20s and 30s. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Read more Review All in all, this "sheer knight-errantcy" is a marvelous entertainment. --Kirkus Reviews --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . New York Times best sellers Browse the New York Times best sellers in popular categories like Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books and more. See more Product Details Publisher: Wildside Press; Reprint edition (April 30, 2008) Language: English Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds ( View shipping rates and policies ) Average Customer Review: on September 15, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Scaramouche is not only Rafael Sabatini's crowning literary achievement, it is one of the most engaging, thought-provoking and exciting historical novels ever written. Andre-Louis Moreau, (or Scaramouche, as he later becomes known), is a fascinatingly complex protagonist.

Courageous, intelligent, quick-witted and intensely moral, Moreau is a character whose personal quest for revenge against the villainous Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr is a masterfully-woven story of swashbuckling action, romance and social conflict during the turbulent years of the French Revolution. Well-born lawyer. Fugitive. Dramatic actor. Expert swordsman. Impassioned, mob-inciting orator. Revolutionary politician. Sabatini sets Moreau upon an intriguing path of fate, development and discovery, a fictionalized yet compelling account of a single man's ultimate test of human character as the world around him spirals into madness. Sabatini has often been compared to Alexandre Dumas (author of the Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo) as a master of historical fiction.

Though I believe Dumas to be the finest action-adventure writer of all time, and though some of Sabatini's other works (which I have not yet read) have been criticized as overly melodramatic, Sabatini has created in Scaramouche an historical action-adventure novel that transcends Dumas (and all modern action-adventure writers, for that matter) in that Moreau, his protagonist, is a thoroughly multi-dimensional character. Though Moreau is driven by his hatred and his quest for revenge, the spirit of his character is not defined by them, and the conflict of these passions with his ideals brings depth and substance to his exploits on the Theatre Feydau, the fencing halls of Paris, the floor of the National Assembly and his pursuit of the beautiful Aline de Kercadiou. Duels. Intrigue. Romance. More duels. Moral and political introspection. Its all here. Enjoy!

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