Scaramouche (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Softcover

Sabatini, Rafael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593082428 ISBN 13: 9781593082420

Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences―biographical, historical, and literary―to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R &&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&RRaised by a supposed "godfather," Andre'-Louis Moreau knows nothing about his background or his real parents―not even his real name. All he knows is that he wants vengeance against the vicious, arrogant aristocrat who brutally murdered his best friend. As France plummets into revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, Moreau's journey toward revenge takes him through several careers, from lawyer to fugitive to actor and playwright―and eventually to member of the French National Assembly. Hiding with a troupe of itinerant actors, he gleefully plays the traditional Commedia Dell-Arte role of Scaramouche, the trouble-making trickster who, like Shakespeare's fools and jesters, speaks painful truths disguised as harmless comedy. &&LP&&R&&LSTRONG&&RRafael Sabatini&&L/B&&R was a twentieth-century Alexandre Dumas: a masterful creator of swashbuckling historical romances. Mixing real people with fictional characters and actual events with invented ones, Sabatini drew vivid, accurately detailed pictures of revolution-addled France. In Scaramouche, he turns a sweeping adventure epic into a subtle psychological study, as Moreau's odyssey gradually becomes less about revenge than about self-discovery.&&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LSTRONG&&RIncludes 8 pieces of original art.&&L/B&&R&&LBR&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LB&&RJohn D. Cloy, Ph.D.&&L/B&&R, is Bibliographer for the Humanities at the University of Mississippi Libraries. He is the author of &&LI&&RPensive Jester: The Literary Career of W.W. Jacobs&&L/I&&R (University Press of America, 1996) and &&LI&&RMuscular Mirth: Barry Pain and the New Humor&&L/I&&R (University of Victoria Press, 2003), as well as various articles on turn-of-the-century English literature and humor, comparative literature, and British short fiction.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R

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From the Publisher

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Thanks to that famous opening sentence the swaggering hero of "Scaramouche" bounds onto the book's center-stage with considerable panache. And for hardly a moment thereafter does André-Louis Moreau lose his charismatic cool, displaying at almost every turn in the tumultuous course of his picaresque adventures the verve, the wit, the intellectual and physical adroitness, and the instant mastery of circumstance that are his birthright. Thrust by chance into the turbulent politics of the time, his successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon make for corking entertainment. With colorful set-pieces playing against a backdrop of high historical drama, "Scaramouche" is considered by many to be Sabatini's best work.

About the Author

John D. Cloy, Ph.D., is Bibliographer for the Humanities at the University of Mississippi Libraries. He is the author of Pensive Jester: The Literary Career of W.W. Jacobs (University Press of America, 1996) and Muscular Mirth: Barry Pain and the New Humor (University of Victoria Press, 2003), as well as various articles on turn-of-the-century English literature and humor, comparative literature, and British short fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1593082428
• ISBN 13: 9781593082420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432