Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781533323248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 382 str.

Rafael Sabatini

Opis

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." This line was to become Sabatini's epitaph, on his gravestone in Switzerland. Scaramouche is a historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921. A romantic adventure, Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche." He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times and his transformation of a cynic into an idealist.

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