http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/ For those interested in Rafael Sabatini, his work, and his characters, such as Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, and Scaramouche. Sat, 25 May 2013 11:41:51 GMT Lee Nordling http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4522 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4522 ³CornwEll.² Sorry for the typo. --Lee ... Re: [Rafael_Sabatini] US and the French Revolution Cornw E ll. Sorry for the typo. --Lee On 5/25/13 7:40 AM, "Lee Sat, 25 May 2013 11:40:57 GMT Lee Nordling http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4521 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4521 One of Bernard Cornwall¹s Sharpe books involves a U.S. privateer fighting with the French, but that was years later when Napoleon ruled. --Lee ... Re: Sat, 25 May 2013 06:43:04 GMT Ruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4520 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4520 Those who are from the USA may already know this, but if you don't it should interest you to read the pages found at this link Fri, 24 May 2013 07:30:51 GMT Ruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4519 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4519 Anyone who has paid attention to the preface RS wrote to his 3rd series of Historical Night's Entertainments will remember how he cites Isaac D'Israeli (father Wed, 22 May 2013 00:17:15 GMT Ruth Heredia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4518 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4518 Hello Emil Only possible to respond briefly - wholly absorbed in Chap. 9! It would be unwise to go to novels for history. But human nature is the same Tue, 21 May 2013 20:58:00 GMT Emil Stecher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4517 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4517 Thanks  for the recommendations.  I have tried to read Citizens in the past and failed miserably.  Perhaps I'll have better luck with In Search of the Tue, 21 May 2013 13:08:02 GMT Ruth Heredia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4516 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4516 Happy to see not one but two appreciative comments, I share with all a morsel of information which will be used in the Chapter I'm presently writing. "It gives Tue, 21 May 2013 12:55:44 GMT Luca GANDOLFI http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4515 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4515 Very, very interesting. Thank you :) Luca I hope these messages I place here are of interest to even a single person?! :-) - Ruth Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:53 GMT Lee Nordling http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4514 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4514 Thanks, Ruth! I find your dedicated scholarly approach to Sabatini fascinating. It¹s like watching the overturning of each rock in a field to see how what¹s Tue, 21 May 2013 06:35:55 GMT Ruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4513 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4513 A careful reading of RS's best work, especially his writings set during the French Revolution, brings to attention his considered views on history and on human Tue, 21 May 2013 02:51:08 GMT Ruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4512 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4512 Splendidly illustrated e-text of THE NUPTIALS OF CORBAL now available at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1302781h.html -Ruth Wed, 15 May 2013 07:45:55 GMT Ruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4511 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4511 Reading RS chronologically for the book I'm writing, I remembered a novel by William Vaughan Wilkins (1890-1959), another mysterious writer and one with a few Mon, 06 May 2013 00:30:00 GMT Ruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4510 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4510 If there's anyone here who enjoyed THE SNARE & would like to know from an historical study more about what is intertwined in the romantic fiction of the novel Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:56:43 GMT Ruth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4509 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4509 Thanks, David. That clears up something and fills a gap! Ruth Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:01:12 GMT David March http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4508 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafael_Sabatini/message/4508 Just added the referenced excerpt from Robert Plot's, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF OXFORD-SHIRE (1677) to the "Articles" folder in the group files. ... From: David