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  • CAPTAIN BLOOD
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    CAPTAIN BLOOD
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely as possible on history. Although Blood is a fictional character, much of the historical background of the novel is loosely based on fact. A group of Monmouth rebels was indeed condemned to ten years' hard labor in Ba...

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  • THE STROLLING SAINT -- BEING THE CONFESSIONS OF THE HIGH & MIGHTY AGOSTINO D'ANGUISSOLA TYRANT OF MONDOLFO & LORD OF CARMINA, IN THE STATE OF PIACENZA.
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    THE STROLLING SAINT -- BEING THE CONFESSIONS OF THE HIGH & MIGHTY AGOSTINO D'ANGUISSOLA TYRANT OF MONDOLFO & LORD OF CARMINA, IN THE STATE OF PIACENZA.
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Strolling Saint, first published in 1913, is a swashbuckler romance set in 16th century Italy. There is a strong underlying theme of religious hypocrisy, as the main character is forced into a career in the clergy, before having to fight the church to regain his inheritance. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT SECOND SERIES
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    THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT SECOND SERIES
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    A selection of short works in which Sabatini writes as different protagonists out for a night on the town. Using his talent for imagery, his art as a wordsmith and his wry sense of humor, it makes these books a window into the past. To this edition of the Second Series of The Historical Nights' Entertainment are added three stories from the volume originally published under the...

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  • TORQUEMADA AND THE SPANISH INQUISITION A HISTORY
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    TORQUEMADA AND THE SPANISH INQUISITION A HISTORY
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Torquemada, the dour Dominican Friar, was responsible for one of the cruellest examples of religious persecution the world has ever known. Driven by his own warped genius, and against the express wishes of his king and queen, he single-handedly engineered torture and fear to a staggering degree. For Torquemada was the original President of the Spanish Inquisition. All you might...

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  • THE LION'S SKIN
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    THE LION'S SKIN
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Justin Caryll, after being raised by a vengeful guardian, travels to England to destroy his birth father for the crime of dishonouring and abandoning his late mother. When we first meet Hortensia, she responds to a cruel trick by beating a villain with his own sword. It's awesome. Justin's mixed feelings on what to do about his absent father are still the main focus of the nove...

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  • ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER
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    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The life of an heiress is in jeopardy and her only hope is to place her trust in the wiles of a middle-aged swordsman with no use for "women's troubles." As the plots of the conspirators converge it will take all the wiles and accumulated wisdom of Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache to uncover their identity, to save Valerie de La Vauvraye and keep his promise to his Queen. A gr...

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  • THE SUITORS OF YVONNE BEING A PORTION OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE SIEUR GASTON DE
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    THE SUITORS OF YVONNE BEING A PORTION OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE SIEUR GASTON DE
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Suitors of Yvonne also known as The Lovers of Yvonne was written in 1902. This first novel of Sabatini is told in the first person narrative style. It is a swashbuckling romance, full of swordplay, foiled assassination attempts, and a heroic rescue. Sabatini is a master of writing action and adventure scenes. (Goodreads) ...

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  • BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
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    BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Bardelys the Magnificent is a 1906 historical adventure novel by the Italian-born British writer Rafael Sabatini. It is set in France during the reign of Louis XIII. In 1926 the story was adapted into a film version Bardelys the Magnificent by the Hollywood studio MGM, with John Gilbert playing the title role. It is is a first-person adventure told by a wealthy French nobleman ...

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  • THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA
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    THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Most Evil Man in Italy? Cesare Borgia served as Machiavelli's model of the ideal ruler for The Prince. The illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, he was a cardinal at age 22. He lived hard and died hard, murdering his enemies, seizing power in Florence, and marrying off his sister Lucretia for political gain, not once but three times. This is his remarkable story. Sabatini ...

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  • THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT FIRST SERIES
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    THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT FIRST SERIES
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    A selection of short works in which Sabatini writes as different protagonists out for a night on the town. Using his talent for imagery, his art as a wordsmith and his wry sense of humor, it makes these books a window into the past. (Goodreads) ...

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  • FORTUNE'S FOOL
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    FORTUNE'S FOOL
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    London 1665 is no place for Randal Holles, a former soldier in Cromwell’s army, now that the monarchy has been restored and the exploits of the Republicans are being condemned in the highest degree. Holles, desperate for an escape from his hopeless situation and almost certain execution, sees no option but to accept the Duke of Wellington’s rather dubious commission – to abduct...

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  • THE TAVERN KNIGHT
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    THE TAVERN KNIGHT
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Tavern Knight is set in the age of Cromwell and the conflict features in the story. The protagonist is a debauched man, living without much care for ethics or honor - he's living just for revenge that he doubts he'll ever get. Then, opportunity presents itself. He begins to make decisions that will result in his long desired revenge, but he'll have to burn some folks to do ...

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  • LOVE-AT-ARMS
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    LOVE-AT-ARMS
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    In 15th century Italy, Francesco del Falco agrees to help Valentina, a young woman who decides she'd rather face a literal siege from an unwanted suitor than accept his offer of marriage. Unfortunately, Valentina's castle is not exactly prepared for action. Francesco makes the best of their limited ammunition and undependable mercenaries, but treachery inside the castle's walls...

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  • THE SHAME OF MOTLEY -- BEING THE MEMOIR OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS IN THE LIFE OF LAZZARO BIANCOMONTE, OF BIANCOMONTE, SOMETIME FOOL OF THE COURT OF PESARO.
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    THE SHAME OF MOTLEY -- BEING THE MEMOIR OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS IN THE LIFE OF LAZZARO BIANCOMONTE, OF BIANCOMONTE, SOMETIME FOOL OF THE COURT OF PESARO.
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    The Shame of Motley is a swashbuckler romance first published in 1908, set in Italy at the turn of the 16th/17th century. The main character, Lazzaro Biancomonte, is of noble birth but now reduced to the role of a court fool. His redemption comes in his part in an adventure involving the Madonna Paola, with whom he becomes besotted. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE TRAMPLING OF THE LILIES
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    THE TRAMPLING OF THE LILIES
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    Shortly after Caron La Boulaye shocks a young aristocratic woman with a profession of love, her father almost succeeds in having Caron killed. Four years later, France is in the middle of the revolution, Caron is a highly-placed politician, and the woman, Suzanne, needs the help of the man she once rejected. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE MARQUIS OF CARABAS
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    THE MARQUIS OF CARABAS
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    A master swordsman travels to dangerous, Revolution-era France to claim his inheritance, in this swashbuckling adventure by the author Captain Blood. The French Revolution is well underway. Countless French nobles are escaping from the horrible violence and traveling to England for refuge. Meanwhile, Quentin de Morlaix, master swordsman, runs a popular fencing school in London....

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  • CAPTAIN BLOOD
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    CAPTAIN BLOOD
    RAFAEL SABATINI
    A thrilling tale of piracy, justice, and honor on the high seas from the author of Scaramouche Retired soldier Peter Blood lives a happy, comfortable life as a physician in seventeenth-century England. Yet everything changes one fateful evening when he saves the life of the wrong patient: a young rebel involved in an uprising against King James II. For doing his job and obeying...

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