Scaramouche

He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. So begins Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche, the gripping tale of an 18th-century man seeking to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of an evil aristocrat.

Rafael Sabatini was born in Italy, in 1875, to two opera singers, and often joined his parents on their professional tours of Europe. In 1918, he became a British subject and worked for the British Intelligence during World War I. He published his first novel, The Lovers of Yvonne, at the age of 27, and continued to produce numerous historical novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and some biographies. Scaramouche was first published in 1921, followed by Captain Blood in 1922. Sabatini died in 1950, while vacationing at a Swiss ski resort.

Gary Hoppenstand is a professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has researched and published widely in the areas of popular culture and popular fiction studies, and he edited the Penguin Classics editions of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau and A.E.W. Mason's The Four Feathers. He is the past president of the Popular Culture Association, and the current editor of The Journal of Popular Culture.

Introduction

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BOOK I: THE ROBE

The Republican

1

(9)

The Aristocrat

10

(10)

The Eloquence of M. de Vilmorin

20

(9)

The Heritage

29

(5)

The Lord of Gavrillac

34

(5)

The Windmill

39

(8)

The Wind

47

(13)

Omnes Omnibus

60

(8)

The Aftermath

68

(9)

BOOK II: THE BUSKIN

The Trespassers

77

(15)

The Service of Thespis

92

(8)

The Comic Muse

100

(11)

Exit Monsieur Parvissimus

111

(9)

Enter Scaramouche

120

(9)

Climene

129

(14)

The Conquest of Nantes

143

(9)

The Dream

152

(7)

The Awakening

159

(17)

Contrition

176

(9)

The Fracas at the Theatre Feydau

185

(16)

BOOK III: THE SWORD

Transition

201

(15)

Quos Deus Vult Perdere

216

(7)

President Le Chapelier

223

(9)

At Meudon

232

(14)

Madame De Plougastel

246

(10)

Politicians

256

(9)

The Spadassinicides

265

(11)

The Paladin of the Third

276

(8)

Torn Pride

284

(12)

The Returning Carriage

296

(9)

Inferences

305

(7)

The Overwhelming Reason

312

(18)

Sanctuary

330

(8)

The Barrier

338

(9)

Safe-Conduct

347

(17)

Sunrise

364

Selected Bibliography

360

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