Name: The Sea-Hawk
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Author: Rafael Sabatini
ISBN: 9781547052103

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rafael Sabatini

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

330

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781547052103

Synopsis "The Sea-Hawk"

Thus my Lord Henry Goade, and you observe how he permits his lingering disapproval of the man to intrude upon his description of him. The truth is that-as there is ample testimony in his prolific writings-is lordship was something of a misanthropist. It was, in fact, his misanthropy which drove him, as it has driven many another, to authorship. He takes up the pen, not so much that he may carry out his professed object of writing a chronicle of his own time, but to the end that he may vent the bitterness engendered in him by his fall from favour. As a consequence he has little that is good to say of anyone, and rarely mentions one of his contemporaries but to tap the sources of a picturesque invective. After all, it is possible to make excuses for him. He was at once a man of thought and a man of action-a combination as rare as it is usually deplorable. The man of action in him might have gone far had he not been ruined at the outset by the man of thought. A magnificent seaman, he might have become Lord High Admiral of England but for a certain proneness to intrigue. Fortunately for him-since head where nature had placed it-he came betimes under a cloud of suspicion.

Rafael Sabatini

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Rafael Sabatini was an English writer of Italian origin known for his romance and adventure novels, among which stand out The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, and Captain Blood. Sabatini wrote thirty-one novels, several short stories, and a play.

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