Results 1 to 7 of 7

Thread: Raphael Sabatini: Scaramouche

  1. #1
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Posts
    30

    Raphael Sabatini: Scaramouche

    Just reread Scaramouche again. It's a gripping read for those that like swashbuckelrs. The politcial statements the hero makes are still valid and sadly it seems not applied. The outcome is predicatble, as are many of Sabatini's novels but well worth the read. Also recommend the Sea Hawk. It takes a chapter to adapt to the prose but once you've entered that and bcome familiar with that world it's well worth the ride.

  2. #2
    Watcher by Night mtpspur's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Fairborn OH, USA
    Posts
    819
    Blog Entries
    394
    If I may advise St Martin's Summer and Chivalry by Sabatini are highly readable. Captain Blood is my all time favorite which gets read and reread every few years or so. Been collecting him for years. Avoid Strolling Saint--my least favorite of his. I'm onthe verge of getting the last two novels I need for my collections--Love at Arms and Shame of Motley otherwise I'm missing several of the short story collections. Nice to know he's not forgotten.

  3. #3
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Posts
    30
    Have you tried www.bookfinder.com? There are several editions of Shame of Motley there, new paperbacks and older hardbacks.

  4. #4
    Watcher by Night mtpspur's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Fairborn OH, USA
    Posts
    819
    Blog Entries
    394
    Already on order thru my local dealer (publisher Wildside press) but I may use this for the Historical Nights Entertainments and Turbulent Tales. Ony have vol #2 of Nights. Thanks.
    Last edited by mtpspur; 05-24-2007 at 02:58 AM. Reason: Come on you know it's spelling

  5. #5
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Posts
    30
    One of my fave quotes from the novel:

    "I desire a society which selects its rulers, from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government to itself - whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any one class is fatal to the
    welfare of the whole." Scaramouche, Rafael Sabatini

  6. #6
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Posts
    3
    Captain Blood is all I've read by him, and it's great. More "Arg, ye matey!" than Steinbeck's Cup of Gold, but not quite as good a book. Very entertaining.

  7. #7
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Posts
    1,206

    Cool I read Scarmouche and Scaramouche the King Maker...

    many years ago. Now I have reread Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, and Captain Blood. Good adventure stories, but I enjoy Dumas more and he wrote better dialog. Just finished reading all of the Dumas' Marie Antoinette Romances which consist of many volumes from Marie Antoinette's journey from Austria to France until her journey to the scaffold. To learn French history, reading Dumas is to the French Revolution as Shakespeare is to the War of Roses.

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •