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Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950We have 18 books for this author.Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. LifeRafael Sabatini was born in Jesi, Italy to an English mother and Italian father. His parents were opera singers who became teachers. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages, living with his grandfather in England, attending school in Portugal and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was seventeen, when he returned to England to live permanently, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language — English — to his linguistic collection. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English." After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of a century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international best-seller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. All of his earlier books were rushed into reprints, the most popular of which was The Sea Hawk from 1915. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. While he perhaps didn't achieve the mammoth success of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, nonetheless Sabatini still maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed. The public knew that in picking up a Sabatini book, they could always count upon a good read, and his following was loyal and extensive. By the 1940s, illness forced the writer to slow his prolific method of composition. However, he did write several additional works even during that time. He died February 13, 1950 in Switzerland. He is buried at Adelboden, Switzerland. On his head stone his wife had written, "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad," the first line of his best-known work, Scaramouche. He is best known for his world-wide bestsellers:
The first three of these books have been made into notable films. In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. WorksSeriesScaramouche
Captain Blood
Novels
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Anthologies edited
Non fiction
EpitaphSabatini's epitaph, on his gravestone in Adelboden, is the first line from Scaramouche:
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This biographical information was gathered from the Rafael_Sabatini page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksBardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...Captain Blood (Audio Book, computer-generated) Captain Blood The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series The Historical Nights' Entertainment The Life of Cesare Borgia The Lion's Skin Love-at-Arms Mistress Wilding Saint Martin's Summer Scaramouche The Sea-Hawk 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 The Snare The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes The Tavern Knight The Trampling of the Lilies |
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