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Nombre canónico: Shellabarger, Samuel
Otros nombres: Esteven, John (pen name)
Loring, Peter (pen name)
Fecha de nacimiento: 1888-05-18
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1954-03-21
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Washington, D.C., USA
Lugar de fallecimiento: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Lugares de residencia: Washington, D.C., USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Educación: Princeton University
Harvard University
University of Munich
Ocupaciones: professor
historical novelist
mystery writer
headmaster
magazine writer
Organizaciones: Columbus School for Girls (headmaster)
Biografía breve: Samuel Shellabarger was an American academic and author of both scholarly works and best-selling novels. He was a skillful linguist who spoke and wrote French, German, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish, and was knowledgeable in Greek and Latin. He originally used pen names for his fiction, while continuing to write scholarly works and teach under his real name. But his meticulously researched historical novels, which he began publishing in the 1940s, proved so popular that he started putting his own name on them. Shellabarger has been compared to Alexandre Dumas for his rapid narrative style, highly developed characters, and vivid, colorful depictions of the past. Some of his books were made into classic films.
Aviso de desambiguación: Samuel Shellabarger wrote mysteries using the pseudonym John Esteven.

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Lord Vanity por Samuel Shellabarger

In retrospect, it was a class of novel which informed a puritanical USA that eighteenth century people coulld have quite a bit of fun. This is a judicious use of episodes from Casanova's memoirs and the tropes of "Tom Jones". It passed the time and was easily adopted into a film script.

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DinadansFriend | 2 reseñas más. | May 30, 2023 |

Vtg Samuel Shellabarger / Prince of Foxes / First… por Samuel Shellabarger

An entertaining, light summer read. Set in the 15th/16th centuries era - it occurs in Italy and involves the Borgias, their minions and their enemies - the chief protagonist and, at least initially, Cesare Borgia's henchman, is one Andrea Orsini - who is actually a peasant named Zoppo - possessed of artistic ability and a smooth self-confidence that allows him to engage with noblemen, artisans and the ladies - ultimately it is an old fashioned love story, sprinkled with violence, concerning Orsini and the virginal wife of an aging aristocrat (apparently too old to consummate the marriage) - Orsini's accomplice, one Mario Belli, is an entertaining add-on to the story line who brings intrigue and danger to the matter. (Shellabarger's book "Captain from Castile" is similar and somewhat better, but I enjoyed them both.)… (más)

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BayanX | Jul 22, 2022 |

Prince of Foxes por Samuel Shellabarger

This swashbuckling novel shows us the Borgias through the eyes of those who served them, living in their shadow and carrying out their orders in the hope of lands and favour in return. Set in the years immediately around 1500, it focuses on a fictional character who is nevertheless so engaging and plausible that he could very well have been real (yes, a comparison with Lymond is unavoidable). While the key people and place are fictional, however, Shellabarger knows his Renaissance well, and the book is rich with Machiavellian realpolitik: ambition, half-truths, bluffs and double-bluffs. Alongside that there are the familiar motifs of the adventure novel, which in this case are much more subtle and successful than usual. We have daring disguises, secret identities and hair’s-breadth escapes, with a soupcon of romance: not the saccharine kind, but one involving two people of such charm and charisma that you genuinely believe they’d be drawn together. The whole thing feels like the kind of escapade that Sabatini might have dreamed up over a bottle of Barolo with Baldassare Castiglione. I will be coming back to it again; and again...

For the full review, please see my blog:
https://theidlewoman.net/2014/01/09/prince-of-foxes-samuel-shellabarger/… (más)

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TheIdleWoman | 4 reseñas más. | Aug 6, 2019 |

Lord Vanity por Samuel Shellabarger

Excellent historical novel of Mid-Eigthteenth Century Europe and Colonial America.

In bildungsroman fashion, the story follows the adventures and moral education of it's young protagonist, the illegitimate son of an English Earl and French dancer, who starts out as a musician and actor in Venice and experiences various and extreme changes of fortune, adventure, and love. Sophisticated, highly-cultured characters exchange witty, indirect dialogue (sometimes lapsing into French or Italian to the minor irritation of the mono-lingual reader).

A glittering representation of the Rococo world painted by Boucher and Fragonard. Like all great historical fiction, the story exemplifies a theme that is emblematic of it's epoch: in this case, the disarray of morality and Religion, leaving the titular 'Lord Vanity' as the true governing force of the age.… (más)

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JackMassa | 2 reseñas más. | Jan 24, 2019 |

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