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Rafael Sabatini The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series

Short Story
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The kindly reception accorded to the first volume of the Historical Nights Entertainment, issued in December of 1917, has encouraged me to prepare the second series here assembled. As in the case of the narratives that made up the first volume, I set out again with the same ambitious aim of adhering scrupulously in every instance to actual, recorded facts; and once again I find it desirable at the outset to reveal how far the achievement may have fallen short of the admitted aim. On the whole, I have to confess to having allowed myself perhaps a wider latitude, and to having taken greater liberties than was the case with the essays constituting the previous collection. This, however, applies, where applicable, to the parts rather than to the whole. [more]

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RAFAEL SABATINI THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT

History
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Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure.He is best known for his worldwide best-sellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), a tale of an Elizabethan Englishman among the pirates of the Barbary Coast Scaramouche (1921), a tale of the French Revolution in which a fugitive hides out in a commedia dell'arte troupe and later becomes a fencing master (Sabatini wrote a sequel ten years later) Captain Blood (1922), in which the title character is admiral of a fleet of pirate ships (Sabatini also wrote two sequels comprising short stories) Bellarion the Fortunate (1926), about a cunning young man who finds himself immersed in the politics of fifteenth-century Italy In all, Sabatini produced thirty-one novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. [more]

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Rafael Sabatini The Historical Nights' Entertainment

Adventure
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When Rafael Sabatini is mentioned most people think of high adventure, sword-fighting and damsels in distress. This isn't [more]

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Rafael Sabatini The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series

Adventure
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Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and [more]

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Rafael Sabatini The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series

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Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and [more]

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Rafael Sabatini The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series

Adventure
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Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and [more]

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Rafael Sabatini The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series

Fiction
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Ages 18 and up
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Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure.[1] He is best known for his worldwide best-sellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), a tale of an Elizabethan Englishman among the pirates of the Barbary Coast Scaramouche (1921), a tale of the French Revolution in which a fugitive hides out in a commedia dell'arte troupe and later becomes a fencing master (Sabatini wrote a sequel ten years later) Captain Blood (1922), in which the title character is admiral of a fleet of pirate ships (Sabatini also wrote two sequels comprising short stories) Bellarion the Fortunate (1926), about a cunning young man who finds himself immersed in the politics of fifteenth-century Italy In all, Sabatini produced thirty-one novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. [more]

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