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by Rafael Sabatini (Author), Bernard Cornwell (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics (4 Jun 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099529858
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099529859
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 63,998 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BERNARD CORNWELL. When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged 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 all handled with brilliance and wit by this extraordinary hero.


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‘One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords and jewels’Daily Telegraph

When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged aristocrat he swears to avenge his death. Falling in with a travelling theatre company he disguises himself as the character of the wily rogue Scaramouche.His ensuing adventures involve hair-raising duels, romance, treachery and shocking family secrets all handled with brilliance and wit by this extraordinary hero.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good - but perfect?, 10 Mar 2002
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This review is from: Scaramouche (Paperback)
Warning: this is not a pure swashbuckler. It goes a lot deeper than, say, "Captain Blood".
I'm not sure why this seems to be so widely regarded as Sabatini's greatest work. It's a damn good read and I enjoyed it, but it does slow down a lot in the middle, and explanations of the politics of the time tend to lead him into digressions from the actual story. It's also a little too episodic - the three parts, "The Robe", "The Buskin" and "The Sword", just don't seem to hang together well enough.
That said, the ending was extremely powerful. True, of the two shock-twists, I had foreseen the less shocking one from the moment the character involved appeared, but the other really hit me. And while I'd rather he'd linked the little history lessons a bit better with the story (as he did in "The Marquis of Carabas" and "The Trampling of the Lilies", both also dealing with the French Revolution), I can't deny that this is an excellent novel.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sabatini's masterpiece, 4 Jun 2006
By Kara Ortiez (Mesa, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Scaramouche (Paperback)
"He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad," so begins Scaramouche, Rafael Sabatini's 1921 novel set during the French Revolution. That single and unforgettable sentence propelled me back to my childhood and awoke in me nostalgia for the excitement and adventure I once held for books and movies.

Scaramouche is a tale of revenge, an astonishing tour de force - every single page seethes with incident, color, and detail. How could it no be? It is the story of a man born on the wrong side of the blanket, fugitive from the King's justice, star of traveling players, and the finest swordsman in all of France. A tale of revenge and revolution.

Scaramouche helped me rediscover everything I loved about the classic swashbucklers of the 40s starring Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Robert Donat. Sabatini also led me to other great tales of adventure by Alexandre Dumas, PC Wren, Emilio Salgari Henry Rider Haggard and Samuel Shellabarger. Scaramouche definitely has a special place in my heart ;)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting book, 29 Aug 1998
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This review is from: Scaramouche (Hardcover)
This book looks on the surface like another adventure book, but beside being a good adventure book, it's also a historical document about the time of French revolution which also has very interesting remarks about the human race. I believe that it has a little from every geanre: action, comedy, philosophy and drama. I think that it is the best work of Rafael Sabatini, the creator of captain Blood.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great, fun read
Scaramouche is a great, fun read, if you don't pause too long to work out character motivations. It has one of the most memorable first lines ever written:
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