Scaramouche: Book 1
Johnny Waco wrote:
I came to read this novel after stumbling across the 1952 swashbuckler film based on it, and I discovered a forgotten gem. Sabatini may have been the last great author of the golden age of the adventure novel, an era beginning with Stevenson, Haggard, and Kipling, and fading away by the Twenties. Andre-Louis, a provincial lawyer with no strong political views, turns vehemently against France's aristocracy when a haughty marquis trumps up a duel with his bumbling but egalitarian friend so he...
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