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Né de mère anglaise et de père italien en 1875, tous deux chanteurs d’opéra, le jeune Rafael Sabatini connut une enfance et une adolescence itinérantes qui lui permirent de maîtriser plusieurs langues : l’anglais, l’italien, le portugais et l’allemand. C’est ainsi qu’il devint traducteur, puis décida de se lancer dans l’écriture de romans d’aventures. Il renouvelle avec talent tous les codes du genre : le roman de cape et d’épée, avec Scaramouche, mais également le roman de pirates,

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Télécharger le livre :  Bardelys the Magnificent
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Speak of the Devil," whispered La Fosse in my ear, and, moved by the words and by the significance of his glance, I turned in my chair.

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Télécharger le livre :  Captain Blood
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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.

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Télécharger le livre :  Love-at-Arms
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From the valley, borne aloft on the wings of the evening breeze, rose faintly the tolling of an Angelus bell, and in a goat-herd's hut on the heights above stood six men with heads uncovered and bowed, obeying its summons to evening prayer. A brass lamp, equipped with...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Life of Cesare Borgia
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This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lion's Skin
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Mr. Caryll, lately from Rome, stood by the window, looking out over the rainswept, steaming quays to Notre Dame on the island yonder. Overhead rolled and crackled the artillery of an April thunderstorm, andMr. Caryll, looking out upon Paris in her shroud of rain, under...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Historical Nights' Entertainment
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In approaching The Historical Nights' Entertainment I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the colour available from surviving records, a group of more or less famous events. I would select for my purpose those which were in...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Tavern Knight
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He whom they called the Tavern Knight laughed an evil laugh - such a laugh as might fall from the lips of Satan in a sardonic moment.

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Télécharger le livre :  Scaramouche
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He was born with a 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 Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sea-Hawk
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Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal acquaintance with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he was ill-favoured. But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his perceptions are not always normal. He says, for instance, of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Shame of Motley
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For three days I had been cooling my heels about the Vatican, vexed by suspense. It fretted me that I should have been so lightly dealt with after I had discharged the mission that had brought me all the way from Pesaro, and I wondered how long it might be ere his Most...

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Télécharger le livre :  St. Martin's Summer
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My Lord of Tressan, His Majesty's Seneschal of Dauphiny, sat at his ease, his purple doublet all undone, to yield greater freedom to his vast bulk, a yellow silken undergarment visible through the gap, as is visible the flesh of some fruit that, swollen with...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Suitors of Yvonne
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OF HOW A BOY DRANK TOO MUCH WINE, AND WHAT CAMEOF IT...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Trampling of the Lilies
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These are they Who ride on the court gale, control its tides;

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Télécharger le livre :  Mistress Wilding
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Then drink it thus, cried the rash young fool, and splashed the contents of his cup full into the face of Mr. Wilding even as that gentleman, on his feet, was proposing to drink to the eyes of the young fool's sister.

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Télécharger le livre :  The Strolling Saint
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In seeking other than in myself - as men will - the causes of my tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon those who held my mother at the baptismal font and concerted...

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