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Rafael Sabatini Dustjacket Gallery |
| Fortune's Fool |
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Illustrator: Harold Mathews Brett (1880-1955)
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Fortune's Fool |
| All who enjoyed the lurid lights of the French Revolution with Scaramouche, or the brilliant buccaneering days of Peter Blood, or the adventures of the Sea Hawk, the corsair, will now welcome with delight a turn in Restoration London with the always masterful Col. Randall Holles. Late of Cromwell's army, Col. Holles finds it impossible to obtain a commission with the Royalists. At his wit's end for money, daily he becomes more impatient and embittered, until, careless of his reputation, he decides to fling away honor, as well, and undertakes for the Duke of Buckingham the abduction of a popular actress. Of what happens thereafter, of a thrilling duel and strange adventures, of Col. Holles' fight for redemption, Sabatini tells in his finest style. London is the background for this story, the gay and careless London of the Restoration, whose glitter and laughter were suddenly blackened by the specter of plague. Once again, Sabatini makes the past not only live but fairly glimmer with vitality. |
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