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Wonderful bit of cheese by a master of cheesiness. All manner of twists and turns of plots, with wonderfully over-the-top ripe prose (lots of "thou's" strewn about). If you like escapism to be Escapism with a capital E, this is your book.
I'd thought that the 1940 Erol Flynn movie "The Sea Hawk" was based on this novel, and as I read I was initially confused as the book's plot wasn't the same as the movie's other than that both share a pirate connection. Later I found that an earlier film (1924) ...more
I'd thought that the 1940 Erol Flynn movie "The Sea Hawk" was based on this novel, and as I read I was initially confused as the book's plot wasn't the same as the movie's other than that both share a pirate connection. Later I found that an earlier film (1924) ...more
May 27, 2015
Jen
marked it as to-read
