Rafael Sabatini Books In Order

Scaramouche Books In Publication Order

  1. Scaramouche (1921)
  2. Scaramouche The King Maker (1931)

Captain Blood Books In Publication Order

  1. Captain Blood (1922)
  2. Captain Blood Returns (1931)
  3. The Fortunes of Captain Blood (1936)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Lovers of Yvonne / The Suitors of Yvonne (1902)
  2. The Tavern Knight (1904)
  3. Bardelys The Magnificent (1905)
  4. The Trampling of the Lilies (1906)
  5. Love-At-Arms (1907)
  6. The Shame of Motley (1908)
  7. St Martin’s Summer (1909)
  8. Mistress Wilding / Anthony Wilding (1910)
  9. The Lion’s Skin (1911)
  10. The Strolling Saint (1913)
  11. The Gates Of Doom (1914)
  12. The Sea-Hawk (1915)
  13. Snare (1917)
  14. Fortune’s Fool (1922)
  15. The Carolinian (1925)
  16. Bellarion (1926)
  17. The Hounds Of God (1928)
  18. The Romantic Prince (1929)
  19. The King’s Minion / The Minion (1930)
  20. The Black Swan (1931)
  21. The Stalking-Horse (1933)
  22. Venetian Masque (1934)
  23. Chivalry (1935)
  24. The Lost King (1937)
  25. The Sword Of Islam (1939)
  26. The Marquis Of Carabas / Master-At-Arms (1940)
  27. Columbus (1941)
  28. King In Prussia / The Birth of Mischief (1944)
  29. Gamester (1949)
  30. Saga of the sea (1953)
  31. The Treasure Ship (2004)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Justice of the Duke (1912)
  2. The Banner Of The Bull (1915)
  3. The Nuptials of Corbal (1927)
  4. Turbulent Tales (1946)
  5. A fair head of angling stories (1989)
  6. The Fortunes of Casanova and Other Stories (1994)
  7. The Outlaws of Falkensteig (2003)

Plays In Publication Order

  1. The Tyrant (2021)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Life of Cesare Borgia (1912)
  2. Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition A History (1913)
  3. The Historical Night’s Entertainment (1917)
  4. Heroic Lives (1934)

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Rafael Sabatini Books Overview

Scaramouche

Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Raised by a supposed ‘godfather,’ Andre’ Louis Moreau knows nothing about his background or his real parents not even his real name. All he knows is that he wants vengeance against the vicious, arrogant aristocrat who brutally murdered his best friend. As France plummets into revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, Moreau’s journey toward revenge takes him through several careers, from lawyer to fugitive to actor and playwright and eventually to member of the French National Assembly. Hiding with a troupe of itinerant actors, he gleefully plays the traditional Commedia Dell Arte role of Scaramouche, the trouble making trickster who, like Shakespeare’s fools and jesters, speaks painful truths disguised as harmless comedy. Rafael Sabatini was a twentieth century Alexandre Dumas: a masterful creator of swashbuckling historical romances. Mixing real people with fictional characters and actual events with invented ones, Sabatini drew vivid, accurately detailed pictures of revolution addled France. In Scaramouche, he turns a sweeping adventure epic into a subtle psychological study, as Moreau’s odyssey gradually becomes less about revenge than about self discovery. Includes 8 pieces of original art. John D. Cloy, Ph.D., is Bibliographer for the Humanities at the University of Mississippi Libraries. He is the author of Pensive Jester: The Literary Career of W.W. Jacobs University Press of America, 1996 and Muscular Mirth: Barry Pain and the New Humor University of Victoria Press, 2003, as well as various articles on turn of the century English literature and humor, comparative literature, and British short fiction.

Scaramouche The King Maker

Another adventure from Sabatini’s remarkable and much loved hero. In Scaramouche the Kingmaker, Andre Louis again dons his famous and much admired disguise to embark upon a new adventure and one full of the thrill and swashbuckling action that has earnt Sabatini his place in the hall of great writers.

Captain Blood

Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood’s attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke’s chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity. These straggling, excited groups were mainly composed of men with green boughs in their hats and the most ludicrous of weapons in their hands. Some, it is true, shouldered fowling pieces, and here and there a sword was brandished; but more of them were armed with clubs, and most of them trailed the mammoth pikes fashioned out of scythes, as formidable to the eye as they were clumsy to the hand.

Captain Blood Returns

Further adventures from the much loved Captain Blood, the ‘Robin Hood’ of the Spanish Seas. In his latest exploits, The Chronicles of Captain Blood takes him to new adventures with as much excitement and swashbuckling adventure as ever before. Winning invaluable treasures, rescuing his crew from almost certain death and saving an English settlement are all in a day’s work for this remarkable hero of land and sea.

The Fortunes of Captain Blood

Captain Blood, the remarkable physician turned pirate returns for more thrilling adventures at sea. Time and again, he falls headlong into deep peril, each time emerging victorious. Yet when everything is stacked against him, can he keep his honour until the bitter end?

The Lovers of Yvonne / The Suitors of Yvonne

Rafael Sabatini 1875 – 1950 was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language – English – to his linguistic collection. 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. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, ‘all the best stories are written in English.’ In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He is best known for his world-wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk 1915, Scaramouche 1921, Captain Blood 1922 and Bellarion the Fortunate 1926. Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion’s Skin 1911, The Strolling Saint 1913 and The Snare 1917.

The Tavern Knight

Rafael Sabatini 1875 – 1950 was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language – English – to his linguistic collection. 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. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, ‘all the best stories are written in English.’ In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He is best known for his world-wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk 1915, Scaramouche 1921, Captain Blood 1922 and Bellarion the Fortunate 1926. Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion’s Skin 1911, The Strolling Saint 1913 and The Snare 1917.

Bardelys The Magnificent

Rafael Sabatini 1875 1950 was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language English to his linguistic collection. 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. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, ‘all the best stories are written in English.’ In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He is best known for his world wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk 1915, Scaramouche 1921, Captain Blood 1922 and Bellarion the Fortunate 1926. Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion’s Skin 1911, The Strolling Saint 1913 and The Snare 1917.

The Trampling of the Lilies

It was spring at Bellecour the spring of 1789, a short three months before the fall of the Bastille came to give the nobles pause, and make them realize that these new philosophies, which so long they have derided, were by no means the idle vapors they had deemed them. The events that fateful spring morning sealed M. la Boulaye’s fate. It started with an idyll in the garden with the object of his heart’s desire; it ended when the Marquis found them in the garden. The Marquis came slowly forward, his angrily inquiring glance wandering from his daughter to M. la Boulaye. At last he said ‘Well?’ he demanded. ‘What is the matter?’ ‘It is nothing,’ his daughter answered him. ‘A trifling affair ‘twixt M. la Boulaye and me, with which I will not trouble you.’ ‘It is not nothing, my lord,’ cried La Boulaye, his voice vibrating oddly. ‘It is that I love your daughter and that I have told her of it.’ He was in a very daring mood that morning. The Marquis glanced at him in dull amazement. Then a flush crept into his sallow cheeks and mounted to his brow. An inarticulate grunt came from his thick lips. ‘Canaille!’ he exclaimed, through set teeth. ‘Can you have presumed so far?’ He carried a riding switch, and he seemed to grasp it now in a manner peculiarly menacing. But La Boulaye was nothing daunted.

St Martin’s Summer

To promise rashly, particularly where a woman is the suppliant, and afterwards, if not positively to repent the promise, at least to regret that one did not hedge it with a few conditions, is a proceeding not uncommon to youth. In a man of advanced age, such as Monsieur de Tressan, it never should have place. But happened it had, and what was Tressan to do? He blundered headlong into the necessary first step towards the fulfillment of his purpose. If the king was to call upon his troops to put down the object of his heart’s desire, well, he would arrange it that he had no troops to offer. ‘Captain,’ said he, looking mighty grave, ‘I have cause to believe that all is not as it should be in the hills in the district of Montelimar.’ ‘Is there trouble, monsieur?’ inquired the captain, startled. ‘Maybe there is, maybe there is not,’ returned the Seneschal mysteriously. ‘You shall have your full orders in the morning. Meanwhile, make ready to repair to the neighborhood of Montelimar tomorrow with a couple of hundred men.’ A novel of romance, adventure, and derring do set in the France of Dumas’s Three Musketeers

Mistress Wilding / Anthony Wilding

Rafael Sabatini 1875 1950 was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language English to his linguistic collection. 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. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, ‘all the best stories are written in English.’ In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He is best known for his world wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk 1915, Scaramouche 1921, Captain Blood 1922 and Bellarion the Fortunate 1926. Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion’s Skin 1911, The Strolling Saint 1913 and The Snare 1917.

The Gates Of Doom

1925. 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 century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. A prolific writer, he produced about a book a year. The Gates Of Doom begins: The room somewhat disordered now, at the end of that long night’s play was spacious, lofty, and handsomely equipped. On a boldly carved, walnut side table of Dutch origin there was a disarray of glas*ses, bottles, plates, and broken meats. From a mahogany wine cooler beneath this table’s arched legs sprouted the corkless necks of a half score empty bottles. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Sea-Hawk

1923. 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 century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. A prolific writer, he produced about a book a year. The Sea Hawk begins: Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the enterprise of his father of lamented and lamentable memory and to the skill and invention of an Italian engineer named Bagnolo who had come to England half a century ago as one of the assistants of the famous Torrigiani. This house of such a startlingly singular and Italiante grace for so remote a corner of Cornwall deserves, together with the story of its construction, a word in passing. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Snare

Rafael Sabatini 1875 1950 was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language English to his linguistic collection. 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. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, ‘all the best stories are written in English.’ In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He is best known for his world wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk 1915, Scaramouche 1921, Captain Blood 1922 and Bellarion the Fortunate 1926. Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion’s Skin 1911, The Strolling Saint 1913 and The Snare 1917.

Fortune’s Fool

At first he had protested against the extravagance of the entertainment. But his protests had been laughed aside with good humoured scorn. His hostess knew a gentleman when she saw one, he was assured, and knew how a gentleman should be entertained. Unsuspicious of the designs upon him, he never dreamed that the heavy debt he was incurring was one of the coils employed by this cunning huntress in which to bind him. from ‘Chapter 1: The Hostess of the Paul’s Head’

Often spoken of in the same breath as Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas, Rafael Sabatini wrote thrilling tales of swashbuckling derring do that were tremendous bestsellers in his day and have delighted generations of readers since.

This 1922 novel, set in Reformation era England, follows the misfortunes and misadventures of Randal Holles, a former soldier adrift without a war to fight…
though the one threatening to erupt with Holland may be his grim salvation. Replete with intrigue, kidnapping, regicide, and plague, this is a captivating must read for fans of adventure fiction.

The Carolinian

Excitement and anticipation are rife in the New World it is a land offering new beginnings and new opportunities. Yet it is also a land of intrigue, deception and deadly opposition. Centred on the rich and fertile soils of Carolina at the time of the American War of Independence, The Carolinian charts the interwoven stories of a host of characters.

The Hounds Of God

When Don Pedro is shipwrecked off the Cornish coast and captured by the formidable Lady Margaret Trevanion, he expects trouble. What he doesn’t expect is to fall in love and run away with Lady Margaret, only to be pursued by his own countrymen. And he certainly hadn’t expected that the officers of the Spanish Inquisition would be so ruthless that Don Pedro and Lady Margaret are forced to enlist the help of the Queen of England herself.

The Romantic Prince

‘Anthony of Egmont contemplated the world with disapproval. He had reached the conclusion that it was no place for a gentleman.’ Thus begins Sabatini’s masterly novel centred on the fifteenth century Burgundian court. Here, Anthony of Egmont’s world is one of ideals, changing fortunes and misplaced loyalties.

The King’s Minion / The Minion

King James I, narrowly escaping assassination in the infamous Gunpowder Plot, has reason to suspect all around him. But surely he can trust members of his Privvy Council? and especially Robert Carr of Ferniehurst, Earl of Somerset and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter? The Minion traces Carr’s meteoric rise and fall at the hands of the wary king whilst capturing all the thrill and vitality of seventeenth century England.

The Black Swan

When Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she has no cause to expect her journey will be anything other than uneventful. But also on board the Centaur is Charles de Bernis a mysterious and intriguing buccaneer. Just as their friendship is beginning to blossom, a dark figure from de Bernis’ past emerges to propel them into a thrilling and perilous adventure, taking them right to the heart of pirate life.

The Stalking-Horse

William of Orange may have triumphantly taken up the throne of England amid much jubilation and celebration, but there are still those who would rather he were not there at all. In this thrilling novel, Sabatini portrays all the political intrigue of seventeenth century London as these Jacobite extremists undertake their Assasination Plot, whilst presenting us with a worthy hero in Colonel Dudley Watson.

Venetian Masque

Monsieur le Vicomte is a remarkable man not least because, for all concerned, he had been guillotined along with numerous French aristocrats. Yet by some twist of fate he managed to escape and seek refuge in Turin, out of the jurisdiction of the French authorities. But by an even more perverse twist of fate, he is apprehended, leaving him once and for all in the hands of the gods. In this dramatic adventure, Sabatini portrays all the colour and passion of Revolutionary France.

Chivalry

Columbino, a great mercenary in pre-Renaissance Italy, has developed his own moral code of Chivalry to which he ruthlessly and relentlessly adheres. Yet when four women are singularly betrayed as a direct result of this code, he comes to question the very essence of his understanding. He emerges with a renewed passion and an awakened sympathy.

The Lost King

The Lost King tells the story of Louis XVII the French royal who officially died at the age of ten but, as legend has it, escaped to foreign lands where he lived to an old age. Sabatini breathes life into these age old myths, creating a story of passion, revenge and betrayal. He tells of how the young child escaped to Switzerland from where he plotted his triumphant return to claim the throne of France.

The Sword Of Islam

European waters are rife with mighty naval battles not least the renowned Battle of Amalfi of 1527. Yet for Andrea Doria, the Admiral of the King of France, he soon learns that the battles he confronts are not confined to sea alone. The House of Dorian is plagued with conflict, both within and without, and Andrea finds that he has very real enemies in his midst.

The Marquis Of Carabas / Master-At-Arms

London is rife with impoverished French nobility who have escaped the horror of the French revolution and journeyed to England to enlist the help of their fellow Catholics. Quentin de Morlaix, already sympathetic to these disenfranchised French aristocrats, finds that he too has his own personal reasons to pray for an end to the Revolution. He sets off for France, and enters a life of confusion, mystery and suspense and bloody execution.

Columbus

Set at the time of the discovery of the New World, this is the remarkable story of Columbus‘ affair with a mysterious Spanish lady Beatriz Enriquez. Sabatini beautifully traces the course of their romance and the child that she bore him whilst also capturing all the passion of Columbus other struggle against none other than the King and Queen of Spain.

King In Prussia / The Birth of Mischief

King in Prussia is a story of the formative years of the renowned king who has been hailed Frederick the Great. Sabatini has created a biography and revealed an uncanny similarity between his subject and his modern counterpart, Adolf Hitler.

Gamester

John Law had a remarkable career ahead of him. Already a successful banker, he was an outstanding figure set to go far. Yet his Scottish homeland was fraught with potential pitfalls and when he killed ‘Beau Wilson’ in a dual, it seemed that the gods had finally conspired against him and his career was to be cut short in its prime. However, dissatisfied with his fate, Law contrived to escape from Newgate and avoid his death sentence; instead fleeing to France where he lived a life of adventure and excitement, and turned his banking skills to the gambling tables…

The Justice of the Duke

Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois and Romanga, has been the subject of much study and debate. In The Justice of the Duke, Sabatini paints an enduring picture of Italian life under the duke and reveals the true nature of this much reviled man. This is a story of passion, revenge and murderous ambition with all the skill and ambition that has earnt Sabatini his masterly reputation.

The Banner Of The Bull

With all the pomp and ceremony of medieval Italy as a colourful backdrop, Sabatini masterfully recreates the political intrigue and misguided loyalties that reigned as the ‘Banner of the Bull’ waved victoriously over the land. Weaving deft descriptions and spirited characterisations into historical events, this is the remarkable story of the notorious Cesare Borgia.

The Nuptials of Corbal

With France undergoing mounting treachery and murder in her bloody Revolution, she was not a land where honour and loyalty could be relied upon. But this political atmosphere was to prove the ultimate test where only the most determined would survive.

Turbulent Tales

Rafael Sabatini’s Turbulent Tales is a masterful catalogue of extraordinary stories of bravery, honour, intrigue and adventure. With all the vitality of their colourful backdrops, they are stories to thrill and excite any lover of historical fiction.

The Life of Cesare Borgia

1930. Cesare Borgia of France, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafri, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino, and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain General of Holy Church. A History and Some Criticisms. 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 century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. A prolific writer, he produced about a book a year. In this volume he rewrites the story of Borgia, who has long been mistakenly portrayed as a villain. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition A History

With 16 halftone illustrations, including a map. Partial contents: Early persecutions; Inquisition canonically established; Order of St. Dominic; Isabella the Catholic; Jews in Spain; New Christians; Prior of Holy Cross; Holy Office in Seville; Supreme Council; Jurisprudence of the Holy Office; Pedra Arbues de Epila; Torquemada’s further ‘instructions’; Inquisition in Toledo; Torquemada and the Jews.

The Historical Night’s Entertainment

Rafael Sabatini 1875 1950 was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language English to his linguistic collection. 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. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, ‘all the best stories are written in English.’ In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He is best known for his world wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk 1915, Scaramouche 1921, Captain Blood 1922 and Bellarion the Fortunate 1926. Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion’s Skin 1911, The Strolling Saint 1913 and The Snare 1917.

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