Scaramouche
Record details
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio Inc., 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 12:05:19. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robert Whitfield. |
Summary, etc.: | With eloquence and rationality, attorney André-Louis launches into political speech-making during the early days of the French Revolution. His best friend, an activist, has been murdered by a nobleman, and André-Louis vows to take up his friend's cause and avenge his death. Hiding out as an actor in a traveling troupe, André-Louis spots the nobleman in the audience. Evoking pandemonium, he confronts the aristocrat from the stage. Animosity intensifies after the man corrupts André-Louis' would-be wife. Later, as a fencing master, André-Louis meets the noble in a deadly duel. The romantic adventures of Rafael Sabatini, born in Italy to an English mother, have been likened to those of Dumas. Published in 1921, Scaramouche became a best-seller in the U.S., where the public was fed up with modern warfare and eager to read about a daring hero of 18th century France. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 173745 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. War stories. Love stories. Adventure fiction. Historical fiction. |