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Rafael Sabatini


Born
in Jesi, Italy
April 29, 1875

Died
February 13, 1950

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language - English - to his linguistic collection. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English. " In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous u ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 34,868 ratings · 2,608 reviews · 573 distinct works • Similar authors
Captain Blood
4.18 avg rating — 16,023 ratings — published 1922 — 1020 editions
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Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 8,481 ratings — published 1921 — 824 editions
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The Sea-Hawk
4.07 avg rating — 3,537 ratings — published 1915 — 640 editions
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Captain Blood Returns
4.23 avg rating — 1,138 ratings — published 1931 — 429 editions
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The Fortunes of Captain Blood
4.17 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 1936 — 153 editions
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The Black Swan
4.12 avg rating — 725 ratings — published 1931 — 41 editions
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Bellarion
4.24 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1926 — 137 editions
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The Tavern Knight
3.48 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1904 — 70 editions
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Mistress Wilding
3.70 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1910 — 126 editions
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The Lion's Skin
3.80 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1911 — 187 editions
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Series by Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood Captain Blood Returns The Fortunes of Captain Blood
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“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines
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“...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
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Polls

March 2019 New School Poll

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages, 1989
 
  118 votes, 37.5%

Blindness by José Saramago, 349 pages, 1995
 
  74 votes, 23.5%

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages, 1921
 
  37 votes, 11.7%

 
  32 votes, 10.2%

 
  32 votes, 10.2%

West with the Night by Beryl Markham, 294 pages, 1942
 
  22 votes, 7.0%

315 total votes
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