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<blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 1243721" data-attributes="member: 8123"><p>Sure!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Well obviously you have to read The Three Musketeers, that's kind of a given. I haven't read all the sequel stuff, just the first one (Twenty Years After? Ten Years Later? I forget) which had some good stuff... more historical fiction than swashbucklery action, though.</p><p></p><p>Sabatini's romantic elements can be a bit cloying at times. (Rather contrived "oh, s/he couldn't love me", misunderstandings, stuff like that.) That being said, he wrote some really good books, particularly <em>Captain Blood</em>, the Captain Blood short stories, and <em>Scaramouche</em> (but not its sequel).</p><p></p><p>Another good but rather forgotten swashbuckler writer was a Brit named Stanley Weyman. <em>Adventures of a Gentleman of France</em> is really great; one of my favourites period. <em>Under the Red Robe</em> doesn't have as much action (more romance... the main character is interesting, as a scoundrel working as an agent of Cardinel Richelieu, warring with his neglected better side) but is a good read too.</p><p></p><p>Weyman is impossible to find in physical form these days, though. A bunch of his books are available as text files at Project Gutenberg, and I have converted a couple of these, as well as some books by Sabatini to PDF. I could email them to you or you can grab them from the files section of the "swashbuckling" list at yahoogroups.com, if you have or create an ID there.</p><p></p><p>Some links...</p><p></p><p><u>The</u> Sabatini website is at <a href="http://www.rafaelsabatini.com/" target="_blank">http://www.rafaelsabatini.com/</a></p><p>There's a good overview of Weyman at <a href="http://www.violetbooks.com/weyman.html" target="_blank">http://www.violetbooks.com/weyman.html</a></p><p></p><p>Also there are lists at Yahoo Groups devoted to Dumas, to Sabatini, and to Weyman. There's also the swashbuckling list I mentioned which is a general one devoted to books and films.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CCamfield, post: 1243721, member: 8123"] Sure!! :) Well obviously you have to read The Three Musketeers, that's kind of a given. I haven't read all the sequel stuff, just the first one (Twenty Years After? Ten Years Later? I forget) which had some good stuff... more historical fiction than swashbucklery action, though. Sabatini's romantic elements can be a bit cloying at times. (Rather contrived "oh, s/he couldn't love me", misunderstandings, stuff like that.) That being said, he wrote some really good books, particularly [i]Captain Blood[/i], the Captain Blood short stories, and [i]Scaramouche[/i] (but not its sequel). Another good but rather forgotten swashbuckler writer was a Brit named Stanley Weyman. [i]Adventures of a Gentleman of France[/i] is really great; one of my favourites period. [i]Under the Red Robe[/i] doesn't have as much action (more romance... the main character is interesting, as a scoundrel working as an agent of Cardinel Richelieu, warring with his neglected better side) but is a good read too. Weyman is impossible to find in physical form these days, though. A bunch of his books are available as text files at Project Gutenberg, and I have converted a couple of these, as well as some books by Sabatini to PDF. I could email them to you or you can grab them from the files section of the "swashbuckling" list at yahoogroups.com, if you have or create an ID there. Some links... [u]The[/u] Sabatini website is at [url]http://www.rafaelsabatini.com/[/url] There's a good overview of Weyman at [url]http://www.violetbooks.com/weyman.html[/url] Also there are lists at Yahoo Groups devoted to Dumas, to Sabatini, and to Weyman. There's also the swashbuckling list I mentioned which is a general one devoted to books and films. [/QUOTE]
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