Free e-books & software I have to apologize to all you folks for the screw up on my web page. I've been hard at work for the past week so everything's right &...
Dear List, That infamous man, that terror of the south seas, that one and only Tiger of Malasyia has found his way into English for the first time. One can...
I am happy to discover that the first part of the adventures of Sandokan have been AT LAST issued in english. Some informations about Salgari, the creator of...
This is most interesting. I'm quite a fan of peplum and spaghetti westerns myself. Would you care to tell us a bit more about how Salagari has influenced these...
Well, it is a little bit complicated. First, you have to know that all the italian adventure literature is a continuation, direct or non-direct, of Salgari:...
New paperback reprints of Scaramouche, Captain Blood, and The Sea Hawk. I guess at 6"x8" these are trade paperbacks. However, I did ISBN searches for them on...
... Right, with introductions by Bernard Cornwell. He used a lot of the information from the Rafael Sabatini web site (and kindly acknowledged that fact in...
... That's very interesting! I own copies of Scaramouche and The Sea Hawk, but still only a printout of Captain Blood, so I'd be interested in contributing to...
Oh, yes, Bernard sent me copies of all three, as did W. W. Norton. I saw them locally at Barnes & Noble. Personally, I wish they would publish something...
... why Sandokan ... Because he is a pirate, it's how he makes a living. To be a little more cynical, he attacked the junk purely as a device to display is...
Well, what I didn't understand was why he gave the captain jewelry far more valuable than the original junk, after taking it. He ended up at a loss! I guess...
I agree with Michael Cummins answer. The best way to read Salgari (and maybe the best way to read most of the adventure and swashbuckling romances) is not to...
Does anyone in this club collect swashbuckler movies,especially pirate and Arabian nights movies? I have several hundred on video, mostly in good condition and...
... This is very true and a very good point. It reminds me of cultural anthropology. We must understand everything on its OWN terms. That is why we may say...
... own ... Yes, I agree with you, "Scaramouche" is certainly one of Sabatini's greatest works of art, even if it is one of his more intertextual books too :...
Very interesting discussion! (But "Oedipus Rex" as *romance* literature? I think not. But that's a subject for another mailing list...) Chris -- Chris...
Interesting points. I never really stopped to think about the intertextual genre aspects of this book. Aside from questions of quality and whether something is...
... Chris, usually I agree with you, but in this case I must disagree. Personally, I'm not so sure it isn't germane to this list. I think that ML might well...
... Well, perhaps, but I think it's worth noting that Oedipus didn't have a clue that his wife was his mother (I confess to believing that Freud was reading...
I picked up a DVD a little while ago that has THE IRON MASK (1929), THE BLACK PIRATE (1926) (both Douglas Fairbanks Sr.) and THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934). I'm...
I have the same cheapo DVD, but unlike you I was almost more interested in The Scarlet Pimpernel than the other films. Although I see your point about...
Yeah there is a brand new DVD of the more or less original 1929 version but with a new score, only Doug's talking sequences remain in the sound dept. from the...
I'm interested in what you had to say about Andre-Louis Moreau as well. You speak of two characters---the Victorian and the spadassin. I've always thought of...
SPOILERS I was very excited to find that Sandokan was in English after watching Sergio Sollima's famous TV version. However, I'm not really enjoying the book...
... Well, I certainly enjoyed The Prisoner of Zenda but I don't think I've read any of his other books. Maybe (especially considering how quiet the list has...
... 'Prisoner of Zenda', 'Rupert of Hentzau' and 'The Heart of Princess Osra' are the 3 Ruritania books. 'Rupert' was written in 1895, as a sequel to 'Zenda'...
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