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Jesi, a diminutive city of the Italian Marches, was the birthplace
of Rafael Sabatini, and here he spent his early youth. The city is
glamorous with those centuries the author makes live again in his
novels with all their violence and beauty.
Mr. Sabatini first went to school in Switzerland and from there to
Lycee of Oporto, Portugal, and like Joseph Conrad, he has never
attended an English school. But English is hardly an adopted language
for him, as he learned it from his mother, an English woman who married
the Maestro-Cavaliere Vincenzo Sabatini.
Today Rafael Sabatini is regarded as "The Alexandre Dumas of Modern
Fiction."
_MISTRESS WILDING_
A romance of the days of Monmouth's rebellion. The action is rapid, its
style is spirited, and its plot is convincing.
_FORTUNE'S FOOL_
All who enjoyed the lurid lights of the French Revolution with
Scaramouche, or the brilliant buccaneering days of Peter Blood, or the
adventures of the Sea-Hawk, the corsair, will now welcome with delight
a turn in Restoration London with the always masterful Col. Randall
Holles.
_BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT_
An absorbing story of love and adventure in France of the early
seventeenth century.
_THE SNARE_
It is a story in which fact and fiction are delightfully blended and
one that is entertaining in high degree from first to last.
_CAPTAIN BLOOD_
The story has glamor and beauty, and it is told with an easy
confidence. As for Blood himself, he is a superman, compounded of a
sardonic humor, cold nerves, and hot temper. Both the story and the man
are masterpieces, A great figure, a great epoch, a great story.
_THE SEA-HAWK_
"The Sea-Hawk" is a book of fierce bright color and amazing adventure
through which stalks one of the truly great and masterful figures of
romance.
_SCARAMOUCHE_
Never will the reader forget the sardonic Scaramouche, who fights
equally well with tongue and rapier, who was "born with the gift of
laughter and a sense that the world was mad."