A finales de 1788, toda Francia tiembla. La revolución está a punto de estallar, y de sólo unos pocos depende que brote la llama.. Y, entonces, todo se remueve cuando Philippe de Vilmorin, seminarista educado en los nuevos ideales,...
Scaramouche es una obra muy popular del escritor Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), publicada en 1921, está ambientada en la Francia revolucionaria del siglo XVIII. Su protagonista es André-Louis Moreau, de la aldea de Gavrillac, un hombre de padr...
La lucha contra la injusticia de André-Louis hace que se vea obligado a huir de las autoridades y a ocultarse tras una máscara en una compañía de teatro itinerante. Su destino será el París de la Revolución...
Rafael Sabatini was born in Iesi, Italy, to an English mother, Anna Trafford, and Italian father, Vincenzo Sabatini. His parents were opera singers who then became teachers.
Beginning with its famous line, "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad", "Scaramouche" is the entertaining romantic adventure by Rafael Sabitini, the prolific Italian-English author. Set in the time...
First published in 1922, "Captain Blood" is an entertaining tale of pirates by Rafael Sabatini, the Italian-English author of adventure and romance novels. "Captain Blood" tells the story of Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician who had...
Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, had a wide ranging career as a sailor and as a soldier, before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgewater. The town begins to fight for the Duke of Manmouth, and though Peter wants no part in the...
Sir Oliver Tressilian , a Cornish sea-faring gentleman, was betrayed by his jealous half-brother. He was then forced to serve as a slave on a Spanish Galley, but was soon liberated by Barbary pirates. After deciding to join the pirates, they give him the...
This volume contains the Captain Blood novel, plus the series of short stories - Captain Blood Returns (or the Chronicles of Captain Blood) and The Fortunes of Captain Blood, plus the novels Scaramouche and The Sea-Hawk.Rafael Sabatini is a master storyte...
Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure, best know for Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, and Scaramouche. Sabatini calls The Life of Cesare Borgia "a history and some criticisms."
Rafael Sabatini was an outstanding Anglo-Italian writer of historical adventure stories and romances of the early 20th Century. This collection brings together some of the most celebrated of his many short stories, in a new hand-edited volume. This anthol...
The French Revolution is well under way when Quentin de Morlaix, already sympathetic to these disenfranchised French aristocrats, finds that he too has his own personal reasons to pray for an end to the Revolution. He sets off for France, and enters a...
A condottiero, nobleman, politician and cardinal, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history's great question marks.