Scaramouche - Couverture souple

Sabatini, Rafael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1593082428 ISBN 13 : 9781593082420

Editeur : Fine Communications,US, 2005

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. In 1905 he married Ruth Goad Dixon, the daughter of a Liverpool merchant. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of a century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international best-seller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. All of his earlier books were rushed into reprints, the most popular of which was The Sea Hawk from 1915. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. While he perhaps didn't achieve the mammoth success of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, nonetheless Sabatini still maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed. The public knew that in picking up a Sabatini book, they could always count upon a good read, and his following was loyal and extensive. By the 1940s, illness forced the writer to slow his prolific method of composition. However, he did write several additional works even during that time. He died February 13, 1950 in Switzerland. He is buried at Adelboden, Switzerland. On his head stone his wife had written, "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad", the first line of his best-known work, Scaramouche.

Revue de presse

"Mr Sabatini's novel of the French Revolution has all the colour and lively incident which we expect in his work" (Observer)

"One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords and jewels" (Daily Telegraph)

"Scaramouche is a wonderfully adventurous story... a splendid novel, whose author fully deserved the fame and fortune it brought him... He gave us great stories and this one, for me, is his best." (Bernard Cornwell)

"[Sabatini] is to be learned from by any who seek instruction in the craft of writing or the matter of history. This century has seen no greater expert in the two combined" (George Macdonald Fraser)

"Mr. Rafael Sabatini is one of the most picturesque of romantic writers and has also a sound equipment as a historian" (Daily Express)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fine Communications,US
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1593082428
• ISBN 13: 9781593082420
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible