The Chronicles of Captain Blood - Hardcover

Sabatini, Rafael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849024693 ISBN 13: 9781849024693

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1931, this new edition is now available. It is a collection of short stories set within the timeframe of Sabatini's best-selling novel 'Captain Blood'. A second collection of short stories 'The Fortunes of Captain Blood (1936) is also available.

About this title

About the Author:

Rafael Sabatini, creator of some of the world’s best-loved heroes, was born in Italy in 1875 to an English mother and Italian father, both well-known opera singers. He was educated in Portugal and Switzerland, but at seventeen moved to England, where, after a brief stint in the business world, he started to write. Fluent in a total of five languages, he nonetheless chose to write in English, claiming that all the best stories are written in [that language]’. His writing career was launched with a collection of short stories, followed by several novels. Fame, however, came with Scaramouche’, the much-loved story of the French Revolution, which became an international bestseller. Captain Blood’ followed soon after, which resulted in a renewed enthusiasm for his earlier work which were rushed into reprint. For many years a prolific writer, he was forced to abandon writing in the 1940’s through illness and eventually died in 1950. Sabatini is best remembered for his heroic characters and high-spirited novels, many of which have been adapted into classic films, including Scaramouche, Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk. They appeal to both a male and female audience with drama, romance and action, all placed in historical settings. It was once stated in the Daily Telegraph’ that 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.’

Review:

"Mr. Sabatini is both a wonderfully fertile creator of exciting fiction and a stylist of distinction" * Punch *

About this edition

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849024693
• ISBN 13: 9781849024693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188