Scaramouche

By Sabatini, Rafael

Book Id: WPLBN0002954594
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File Size: 495.39 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Scaramouche
Author:	Sabatini, Rafael
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, History, Adventure
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Scaramouche; by Rafael Sabatini
Historic Publication Date:	1921
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Sabatini, B. R. (1921). Scaramouche. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him Scaramouche (also called Scaramuccia, a roguish character in the commedia dell'arte), but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship. The later film version includes one of the longest, and many believe, best swashbuckling sword-fighting scenes ever filmed.The novel has a memorable start (Book I: The Robe, Chapter I, 'The Republican'): He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillacs had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it. (Summary by Gord)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
History, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Romance