For those whom are interested, Dean Cornwell's oil painting (52" wide by 26" tall) for "Ransom - Captain Blood" is for sale from Charles G. Martignette...who...
I've always thought Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Errol Flynn, and Sabatini were, in a way, inexorably linked in my mind. I've always thought Korngold's sweeping,...
Hi, Steve, A colleague of mine is publishing an e-text of Bardelys, and he asked me to check on something. The subtitle of the book. In the first edition,...
Actually, anyone on the list who has a first edition of Bardelys is more than welcome to answer the question. JFK ... me ... with ... does ... have ... the...
... Hi Jesse, Here is the subtitle: Being an Account of the Strange Wooing pursued by Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis of Bardelys, and of the things that in...
Thanks, Doug, for the reply on our good friend Bardelys. Appreciate the help. It would be fun to see the silent film version of Bardelys someday. When it was...
Hi, Group. A fellow wrote to me regarding movie music from Sabatini films. Unfortunately, when I thought about I realized I really hadn't done a very good job...
... I really don't know. I've never heard of a print of Bardelys surfacing. All I have is just the stills in the G & D book. Can anyone shed more light on...
Normally, I wouldn't bring up this topic, but I know we have some members on the list who are primarily interested in Sabatini's work on the screen. I recently...
Hey Guys, I've read and own a number of Rafael Sabatini's books and am wanting to find new authors now. I really anjoy his writting style and the genre of his...
Hi back at yuh! I have recently been LOVING the works of SAPPER(H.C. McNeile)Author of Bulldog Drummond series and other VIOLENT and MEAN adventure novels....
... I would recommend Jeffery Farnol. His style is florid like Sabatini's, and he wrote historicals. His work seems to me to be lighter than Sabatini's,...
Thank you to both of the two people that replied to my request for help. Thank you very much for your ideas and help. Hopefully I am able to use your advice...
... Hi, In response to the suggestion about Bull-Dog Drummond, I will second that they are immensely fun to read - though they are not Historical Fiction like...
... MacGrath (1871-1932) wrote a ton of books. He wrote any number of adventure stories. I've sometimes wondered if Sabatini read him at all. Although...
... I should probably clarify my earlier question regarding MacGrath. I do know he wrote some--but not how many--short stories. I have a list of half a...
Jesse, I am not that familiar, but I happened across this book and and it reminded me of Sabatini. I was so impressed with this book that I have been buying...
... Jesse, thank you for using the descriptive word 'florid'. I have often thought that word best describes the writing style of Sabatini but it also gave me...
Hmm, I have never thought of the word "florid" as having a negative connotation. Looking it up however, it appears that it might. According to my American...
Re other Authors: My three favorite Farnol novels are "Broad Highway", " Beltane the Smith" and "Amateur Gentleman" which I think was made into a movie...
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... surfacing. ... A few minutes of the film survive. It played at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco last year, and I posted some brief comments from one who...
Folks, Does anyone have further details on Sabatini's introductory note -- sins of my literary nonage -- that seems to appear in several Grosset & Dunlap...
Folks, By the way, I just followed up my reading of the Black Swan with the even better Captain Blood. I don't yet have Return of Capt. Blood, but understand...
Folks, One last comment, now that I have Black Swan and Capt. Blood, and without Return on the shelf, can anyone give me a recommendation for my next...
Folks, I forgot one more question. How many Sabatini titles have variant dustjackets for the US editions -- I believe there are two versions of Capt. Blood and...
