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Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) Online LNamX (Mobile book) Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) Online [LNamX.ebook] Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) Pdf Free Rafael Sabatini ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF #2291322 in eBooks 2016-04-19 2016-04-19File Name: B01EGGLNQI | File size: 23.Mb Rafael Sabatini : Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Scaramouche (Diversion Classics): 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. "There is no worse hell that that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities."By Don KidwellRelive the French Revolution together with many remarkable passages like "For government by any one class is fatal to the welfare of the whole" and "You must change man, not systems." Good book by itself or do yourself one better and grab it as part of a collection for even a better bargain.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. One of the Best Sabatini novels!By David N. KrafchickIf you have not seen the film with Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh and Mel Ferrer, then sit down for one the best read in the tradition that this writer established on his own. It is broken 9n to 3 books. I would have made into 3 plays if it ever gets adapted. Sabatini is the master of the traditional Swashbuckler. Andre Moreau is a lawyer who watches his best friend struck down. As he trains for revenge, he hides in a theatrical troupe playing the comic Scaramouche. Set during the French Revolution, it is Sabatini at his best. Read the book , then watch the film.7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. He was born with the gift of laughter ...By AdamThis is my first Sabatini novel (just finished it last night), but it won't be my last - I found Scaramouche excellent.Scaramouche is set during the years leading up to and including the French Revolution, and follows the exploits of one Andre Louis Moreau, a lawyer, a bastard, and a Frenchman with close connections to the ruling class. Moreau begins the story without an inkling of support for the Republican cause, but this changes early in the novel when Moreau's best friend, an outspoken Republican with a "dangerous gift of eloquence", is wrongly and permanently silenced. With that event, Sabatini not only changed the course of Moreau's life forever, he also had me hooked less than 30 pages into Scaramouche - an impressive accomplishment given my attention span, or lack thereof.Moreau, or Scaramouche as he's eventually known, is a complex and unique character. Moreau's motives are often contradictory and hard to understand yet, at least to me, remain believable. He devotes his life to a cause he (at least initially) doesn't believe in. He seems to have little care for those around him, and is even called heartless by his friends and peers numerous times, yet he possesses loyalty worthy of admiration. An admitted hypocrite, he despises the emotion of hatred whilst himself dedicating a good portion of his life to vengeance. I found this unique character memorable and also worth liking and rooting for.If there is one negative worth pointing out, it's that Scaramouche (the novel, not the character) is, at times, highly predictable. In particular, there is a revelation relating to Moreau's linage revealed at the end of the story that I saw coming from a mile away - and I'm pretty dense, there's generally a lot I don't see coming from a mile away that many other readers would. The story also is peppered with a number of fairly unlikely coincidences - but I think it's reasonable to consider these not coincidence, but Providence, or fate, and their prevalence is common to other works that I'd consider within the same category as Scaramouche, including everything I've ever read by Dumas or Hugo.However, aside from what I'd consider a good to very good story, any negatives I can point out are, in my opinion, more than offset by Sabatini's excellent writing. This is clearly a matter of opinion, but I like his writing style better than just about anything I've read in the recent past, and I've read works by some pretty well regarded authors in the recent past. And in my opinion it's much more than a good vocabulary, the entire 350 pages are dotted with more great one-liners than I could possibly count or keep track of (beginning with the opening line of the novel, but this is far from the only memorable line). I was laughing out loud multiple times while reading this, moved to laughter by the overweight Pantaloon's "ponderous yet curiously noiseless gait" and, crap, countless other lines that make me wish I'd read with a highlighter nearby so I could quote more than one of them in this review and elsewhere - I never do that (read w/ a highlighter next to me) but do wish I had in this case and will when I read future works by Sabatini. The comical nature of the book is also bolstered by Moreau's cynical, dry humor that I find appealing.As for my highest praise for this piece, I can offer two examples. The first is that I will read more works by Sabatini (in fact I just received a copy of Captain Blood today). The second is, if asked by a random friend to recommend a single book I've read over, say, the last six months as an easy, entertaining (yet nonetheless thought provoking) read, my answer would come easily and immediately: Scaramouche. Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Andreacute;-Louis Moreau, once a lawyer with a comfortable life, is spurred into action after the murder of his best friend at the hands of an aristocrat. Now, as Scaramouche, he speaks out against the French government the only way he can. Traveling with a band of actors, this comedic figure delivers blow after blow to the aristocracy, honing his message and bringing fame, fortune, and success to his small troupe. A thought-provoking commentary on class division and inequality, this swashbuckling adventure cements Rafael Sabatanirsquo;s work as absolutely vital to the literary canon. From Publishers WeeklyDelightfully courtly, flowery but not dated, Sabatini's period romances--Scaramouche unfolds over the years leading up to the French Revolution--were deservedly popular when originally published, during the 20s and 30s. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. "Mr Sabatini's novel of the French Revolution has all the colour and lively incident which we expect in his work" * Observer * "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 * "Scaramouche is a wonderfully adventurous story... a splendid novel, whose author fully deserved the fame and fortune it brought him... He gave us great stories and this one, for me, is his best." -- Bernard Cornwell "[Sabatini] is to be learned from by any who seek instruction in the craft of writing or the matter of history. This century has seen no greater expert in the two combined" -- George Macdonald Fraser "Mr. Rafael Sabatini is one of the most picturesque of romantic writers and has also a sound equipment as a historian" * Daily Express *From the Publisher10 1.5-hour cassettes [LNamX.ebook] Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) By Rafael Sabatini PDF [LNamX.ebook] Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) By Rafael Sabatini Epub [LNamX.ebook] Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) By Rafael Sabatini Ebook [LNamX.ebook] Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) By Rafael Sabatini Rar [LNamX.ebook] Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) By Rafael Sabatini Zip [LNamX.ebook] Scaramouche (Diversion Classics) By Rafael Sabatini Read Online.
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