Scaramouche (Gateway Movie Classics) - Softcover

Sabatini, Rafael

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9780895263100: Scaramouche (Gateway Movie Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895263106 ISBN 13: 9780895263100

Publisher: Gateway Editions, 2000

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The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend's death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d'Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Louis rallies the underclass to join him in his mission against the supreme power of the nobility. Soon the rebel leader must go underground, disguising himself as "Sacramouche" in a traveling group of actors. In the midst of his swashbuckling adventures and his country's revolution, he discovers the secret of his own identity.

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

A classic tale of high adventure, the story of a man 'born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad'.

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