The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini PDF Download

Author: H. Orel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230371493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel and illustrated his concept of the genre by writing a long series of novels dealing with medieval times, the Elizabethan Age and the 18th Century. Later novels written by his contemporaries and successors attracted smaller audiences. When Robert Louis Stevenson, in the early 1880s, enthusiastically expanded the boundaries of romantic fiction, he became a standard-bearer and an inspiration to many of his fellow-novelists: Walter Besant, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley John Weyman, Anthony Hope, Henry Rider Haggard, and Rafael Sabatini.

Author: Harold Orel
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312124731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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"Sir Walter Scott, in theory and practice, established a rationale for the writing of historical novels. He identified the relative importance of the roles to be played by real men and women of the past, and discussed the significance of language, the importance of research as opposed to the claims of the imagination, and the proper use of strong passions in his fictional characters. Some of his contemporaries and successors thought that they could surpass his achievement by being more faithful to the 'facts' of history, or by moralizing about more up-to-date issues, but their efforts proved less successful." "Not until Robert Louis Stevenson redefined the possibilities inherent in the genre - beginning in the 1880s - did the historical romance attract a wider audience. The resurgence of this type of fiction, called by some 'The New Historical Novel', attracted the impressive storytelling talents of Sir Walter Besant, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley John Weyman, Anthony Hope, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, and Rafael Sabatini. The Armistice that concluded the Great War brought to an abrupt end this amazing forty-year vogue for costume novels. The story of how and why they became so popular is well worth reviewing."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author: Rafael Sabatini
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This is a romance fiction novel, set in Italy at the time of the Borgia supremacy. The author, Rafael Sabatini explores the era, giving readers a perfect period piece, and a great amount of epic romance. Two main characters, Francesco, the Count of Aquila, and Valentina are star-crossed lovers. Francesco is a soldier, who rejects a proposition of the dukedom and is expelled from his land. Soon, he meets Valentina, a heroine who is the expected fiancée of his cousin. They have to overcome many obstacles to get away from the arranged marriage and political issues.

Author: Rafael Sabatini
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6843

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This edition includes: Novels: Scaramouche Captain Blood The Lovers of Yvonne The Tavern Knight Bardelys the Magnificent The Trampling of the Lilies Love-at-Arms The Shame of Motley St. Martin's Summer Mistress Wilding The Lion's Skin The Strolling Saint The Gates of Doom The Sea Hawk The Snare Fortune's Fool The Carolinian Short Stories: The Justice of the Duke: The Honour of Varano The Test Ferrante's jest Gismondi's wage The Snare The Lust of Conquest The pasquinade The Banner of the Bull: The Urbinian The Perugian The Venetian Other Stories: The Red Mask The Curate and the Actress The Fool's Love Story The Sacrifice The Spiritualist Mr. Dewbury's Consent The Baker of Rousillon Wirgman's Theory The Abduction Monsieur Delamort The Foster Lover The Blackmailer The Justice of the Duke The Ordeal The Tapestried Room The Wedding Gift The Camisade In Destiny's Clutch The Vicomte's Wager Sword and Mitre The Dupes The Malediction The Red Owl Out of the Dice Box The Marquis' Coach Tommy The Lottery Ticket The Duellist's Wife The Ducal Rival The Siege of Savigny The Locket The Devourer of Hearts The Matamorphasis of Colin Annabel's Wager The Act of The Captain of the Guard The Copy Hunter Sequestration Gismondi's Wage Playing with Fire The Scourge Intelligence The Night of Doom The Driver of the Hearse The Plague of Ghosts The Risen Dead The Bargain Kynaston's Reckoning Duroc The Poachers The Opportunist The Sentimentalist Casanova's Alibi The Augmentation of Mercury The Priest of Mars The Oracle Under the Leads The Rooks and the Hawk The Polish Duel Casanova in Madrid The Outlaw of Falkensteig D'Aubeville's Enterprise The Nuptials of Lindenstein The Outlaw and the Lady The Jealousy of Delventhal The Shriving of Felsheim Loaded Dice Of What Befel at Bailienochy After Worcester Field The Chancellor's Daughter... Historical Works: The Life of Cesare Borgia Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition The Historical Nights' Entertainment – 1st and 2nd Series

Author: Rafael Sabatini
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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The 15th century Italian Cardinal, respected military figure and alleged illegitimate son of a Catholic Pope, Cesare Borgia, wasn't just the inspiration of the famous book 'The Prince' by Niccolò Machiavelli, he is also the subject of the play "The Tyrant" by Rafael Sabatini. Straddling the line between two extreme views, the historical view of the villainous acts of a monster that Cesare is often portrayed in history as, and the more realistic view of a brilliant man erroneously slandered, as Sabatini held, a matter he seeks to show through a singular episode in his life. As the preface states, "In other words, I would show Cesare Borgia moving through a set of circumstances that should reveal his daring, his resource, his splendour, his athletic physical beauty, his personal magnetism, his intellectual acuteness, his ruthlessness, his merciless ambition, his typical fifteenth-century cruelty and his remorseless egotism, whilst at the same time in nothing suggesting that he could not in a different set of circumstances have perpetrated any or all of the villainies with which the popular conception charges him..."

Author: Rafael Sabatini
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6843

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DigiCat presents to you this unique Rafael Sabatini collection, formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: Scaramouche Captain Blood The Lovers of Yvonne The Tavern Knight Bardelys the Magnificent The Trampling of the Lilies Love-at-Arms The Shame of Motley St. Martin's Summer Mistress Wilding The Lion's Skin The Strolling Saint The Gates of Doom The Sea Hawk The Snare Fortune's Fool The Carolinian Short Stories: The Justice of the Duke: The Honour of Varano The Test Ferrante's jest Gismondi's wage The Snare The Lust of Conquest The pasquinade The Banner of the Bull: The Urbinian The Perugian The Venetian Other Stories: The Red Mask The Curate and the Actress The Fool's Love Story The Sacrifice The Spiritualist Mr. Dewbury's Consent The Baker of Rousillon Wirgman's Theory The Abduction Monsieur Delamort The Foster Lover The Blackmailer The Justice of the Duke The Ordeal The Tapestried Room The Wedding Gift The Camisade In Destiny's Clutch The Vicomte's Wager Sword and Mitre The Dupes The Malediction The Red Owl Out of the Dice Box The Marquis' Coach Tommy The Lottery Ticket The Duellist's Wife The Ducal Rival The Siege of Savigny The Locket The Devourer of Hearts The Matamorphasis of Colin Annabel's Wager The Act of The Captain of the Guard The Copy Hunter Sequestration Gismondi's Wage Playing with Fire The Scourge Intelligence The Night of Doom The Driver of the Hearse The Plague of Ghosts The Risen Dead The Bargain Kynaston's Reckoning Duroc The Poachers The Opportunist The Sentimentalist Casanova's Alibi The Augmentation of Mercury The Priest of Mars The Oracle Under the Leads The Rooks and the Hawk The Polish Duel Casanova in Madrid The Outlaw of Falkensteig D'Aubeville's Enterprise The Nuptials of Lindenstein The Outlaw and the Lady The Jealousy of Delventhal The Shriving of Felsheim Loaded Dice Of What Befel at Bailienochy After Worcester Field The Chancellor's Daughter... Historical Works: The Life of Cesare Borgia Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition The Historical Nights' Entertainment – 1st and 2nd Series

Author: D. Wallace
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker.

Author: Rafael Sabatini
Publisher: Double 9 Booksllp
ISBN: 9789357272940
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Rafael Sabatini penned the historical novel Bellarion the Fortunate. The story opens with Bellarion, a young man who was abandoned as a child and educated in an abbey, leaving with a letter of introduction from the revered abbot and plans to attend Pavia University. He meets and travels with a Franciscan friar but learns that his money and letter have been stolen. As he arrives at Casale, the state's capital, he discovers that he is being sought by the authorities. He runs away till he arrives at a palace, where he enters via a garden entrance that, to his surprise, is unlocked. A stunning woman welcomes him inside, locks the door, and makes an effort to hide him from his assailants. Later, the plot follows Bellarion's career as he grows to be Facino Cane's loyal and true son and, after Facino's death, pledges loyalty to his widow. The story takes several unexpected turns as Bellarion rises through the ranks to become a significant mercenary captain.

Author: Martha Tuck Rozett
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791487733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre's defining characteristics. It also serves as a lively account of the way Shakespeare, Marlowe, Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, and their contemporaries have been depicted by such writers as Anthony Burgess, George Garrett, Patricia Finney, Barry Unsworth, and Rosalind Miles. Innovative historical novels written during the past two or three decades have transformed the genre, producing some extraordinary bestsellers as well as less widely read serious fiction. Shakespearean scholar Martha Tuck Rozett engages in an ongoing conversation about the genre of historical fiction, drawing attention to the metacommentary contained in "Afterwords" or "Historical Notes"; the imaginative reconstruction of the diction and mentality of the past; the way Shakespearean phrases, names, and themes are appropriated; and the counterfactual scenarios writers invent as they reinvent the past.

Author: Rafael Sabatini
Publisher: Double 9 Booksllp
ISBN: 9789357273671
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Love-At-Arms is a historical fiction novel written by an Italian-British writer Rafael Sabatini. The characters of Valentina and Francesco are powerful in this novel; Valentina wants to be in charge of her destiny, while Francesco is courtly, brave, attractive, and intelligent. Love-At-Arms is a readable and attractive novel with a brand-new cover and expertly typeset manuscript. The narrative includes so many turns and twists that it could keep a reader interested. The novel is a collection of ideas that aims to bring together many of Rafael's great thoughts in a single draft that is inexpensively priced and accessible to all readers.