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The Historical Nights' Entertainment eBooks
by Rafael Sabatini
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The Historical Nights' Entertainment Summary
| In approaching "The Historical Nights' Entertainment" I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the colour available from surviving records, a group of more or less famous events. I would select for my purpose those which were in themselves bizarre and resulting from the interplay of human passions, and whilst relating each of these events in the form of a story, I would compel that story scrupulously to follow the actual, recorded facts without owing anything to fiction, and I would draw upon my imagination, if at all, merely as one might employ colour to fill in the outlines which history leaves grey, taking care that my colour should be as true to nature as possible. For dialogue I would depend upon such scraps of actual speech as were chronicled in each case, amplifying it by translating into terms of speech the paraphrases of contemporary chroniclers. |
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| 1924. After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. This brilliant novel of the French Revolution became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood in 1922. A prolific writer, he produced about a book a year. The second series of The Historical Nights Entertainment contains the following stories: The Absolution; The False Demetrius; The Hermosa Fembra; The Pastry-Cook of Madrigal; The End of the Very Galant; The Barren Wooing; Sir Judas; His Insolence of Buckingham; The Path of Exile; The Tragedy of Herrenhausen; The Tyrannicide; The Honor of Varano; The Lust of Conquest; and The Pasquinade. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
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