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  <title><![CDATA[Scaramouche]]></title>
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  <default-description>Set during the French Revolution, this classic novel of swashbuckling adventure and sweeping romance is also a thoughtprovoking commentary on class, inequality, and the individual's role in society-a story that has become Rafael Sabatini's enduring legacy.</default-description>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Up until about 150 pages from the end of the book, I was so into this that I was reading it under, over, and around every surface that I could, so absorbed that I started reading it while I was walking from place to place and nearly got myself killed getting hit by a car because I was far too involv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2742353">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in the 1920s but set directly before the French Revolution, this is the story of a young lawyer from the provinces, Andre-Louis.  Raised and educated among the nobility, he has not the wealth, parentage, or hypocrisy needed to remain in their midst.  When the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr viciou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43009912">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad,&quot; so begins Scaramouche, Rafael Sabatini's 1921 novel set during the French Revolution. That single and unforgettable sentence propelled me back to my childhood and awoke in me nostalgia for the excitement and advent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21248050">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you happen to be in the market for a great summer read, here you are. Originally published by Rafael Sabatini in 1921, the book tells the story of Andre-Louis Moreau. Andre-Louis is a man of illigitimate birth who is raised with almost all the privilages of his nobleman godfather. The book is set...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30649248">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came to read this novel after stumbling across the 1952 swashbuckler film based on it, and I discovered a forgotten gem. Sabatini may have been the last great author of the golden age of the adventure novel, an era beginning with Stevenson, Haggard, and Kipling, and fading away by the Twenties. An...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18058486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9214351">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a terrific story about the adventures of a young man during the French Revolution. He is a laissez-faire and rather apathetic lawyer at the beginning, very sure that no effort he exerts on behalf of good morals will do any good at all, until his young friend is killed in a duel, simply becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9214351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11738433">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My uncle gave me a stack of old books and this one piqued my interest because I love everything French. And then I saw the last half of the (1950s) movie on TV and I became even more interested. (By the way, the movie and book differ quite a bit.)<br/>So I loved it and if you like stories with fenc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11738433">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've never read any Rafael Sabatini, then I urge you to do so. He writes historical novels that are at least as good as Sir Walter Scott's, if not slightly better. This particular one concerns Andre-Louis's adventures as a part of the french Revolution, its build-up and subsequent events.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14504536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25753828">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm currently reading 'Captain Blood', and I can tell you that Sabatini writes some of the best classic adventure stories you will encounter. His mix of historical fiction, romance, action and political intrigue in Scaramouche will keep you turning pages. Highly recommended if you enjoy Dumas. Also,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25753828">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like Dumas, you'll like this book.  It really reminded me of The Counte of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers...except that it didn't have real boring crap in between action scenes.  Not to say that this book is all action, just that I was never bored.  I really enjoyed that it was set dur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33622710">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17408999">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great swashbuckling member of the troupe of classical adventure novels. (Think Scarlet Pimpernel and Prisoner of Zenda.) Talk about 2nd - and 3rd and 4th - careers! Lovely prose (albeit a bit older in style), charming protagonist, interesting (and surprisingly nuanced) history, and great villain (wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17408999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29153512">
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    <body><![CDATA[A rollicking good tale, set during the French Revolution, and following the daring escapades of Scaramouche, the mysterious clown with the sword. Pure entertainment, with the ever so slight justification of being in the genre of historical fiction. Part mystery, part political, and all adventure, a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29153512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was not for me.  I listened to it as an audio book and the narrater was not great which may have influenced my exerience.  I found the endless dialog of scaramouche boring - some might find it entriqueing.  The author does do a good job of bringing the story full circle so the reader is le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26676856">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was very fun.  I had never realized all the politics that were ocurred before the French Revolution as I think of it.  And to be honest, my education about that is pretty much limited to what I learned from The Scarlet Pimpernel.  The writing was superb and I was even surprised by a twist at th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22814698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as a teenager and it left a great impression on me. I found it to be a deliciously complex novel with an ingenious protagonist. I don't know whether I would still feel the same if I reread it now. Since I don't have access to it any more (it was in my high school library) it's a moot poi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33169342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4973885">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a very entertaining read.  it's clever, interesting, unpredictable and completely mesmerizing.  the first two parts are especially enlightening.  I wish I had read this when I was a in high school as it is full of fascinating insight for a young man trying to find his way in the world.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a little smile for Sabatini... David was once described in a review as &quot;having a chest Sabatini would be proud of...&quot; which cracks me up.  But, that aside, Sabatini really was the father of modern epic-historical fiction... and he's pretty darn good at it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gift from Sadie, who saw that it had some of the same readership as the Prince of Foxes, which, of course, I loved. It turned out to be a great read, smart, intriguing, romantic (if you can handle that sort of thing), and had some great plot twists.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I discovered this book the summer after my freshman yr of college and I was bored so I read alot. One of my faves - I would put it in the top 10. Adventure? Yes Romance? Yes Historical fiction? Yes.  It was a quick read since it's hard to put down.]]></body>
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