Rafael Sabatini

Scaramouche

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Produktbeschreibung

When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant aristocrat he swears to avenge his death. Forced to flee his hometown after stirring up revolutionary fervour in the citizens, he falls in with a travelling theatre company and disguises himself as the character of the wily rogue Scaramouche. His ensuing adventures involve hair-raising duels, romance, treachery and shocking family secrets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9781438537009
• ISBN-10: 143853700X
• Artikelnr.: 28855520

Autorenporträt

Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure. planning for all possibilities but his own illness. Several of Sabatini's novels were adapted into films during the silent era and the first three of these books were made into notable films in the sound era, in 1940, 1952, and 1935 respectively. His third novel was made into a famous "lost" film, Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, and long viewable only in a fragment excerpted in Vidor's silent comedy Show People (1928). In all, Sabatini produced 31 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories and several plays.