Soon after finishing Captain Blood I picked up the “sequel” – Captain Blood Returns. Scaramouche is also a fantastic historical adventure epic and even The Sea Hawk is enjoyable if you can get past the fact that the protagonist’s love interest is the most annoying female character written in the history of female characters. I fell in love with Captain Blood about as soon as I opened the book and the opening phrase to The Tavern Knight is still one of my personal favorites. The plot lines are so cleverly crafted and no author turns a phrase quite as well as Sabatini. Rafael Sabatini is a huge influence on my work. Other famous works by Sabatini are The Lion's Skin (1911), The Strolling Saint (1913) and The Snare (1917). He is best known for his world-wide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (1922) and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926).

' In all, he produced thirty one novels, eight short story collections, six nonfiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, 'all the best stories are written in English. Sabatini was a prolific writer he produced a new book approximately every year. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer.

He quickly added a sixth language - English - to his linguistic collection. By the time he was seventeen, he was the master of five languages. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages. Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.

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