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Cargando... The Tavern Knight (1904)por Rafael Sabatini
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. After enjoying Sabatini's Scaramouche, I had hopes for his other works and bought this one without knowing a thing about it other than the author. What a disappointment! The story is set during the English civil war. It's such a painfully obvious plot... debauchee knight is a dispossessed nobleman who is mysteriously drawn to a youth who is JUST the age his son would have been if his son had not been killed (off-scene, of course) by his mortal enemies... imagine that... and the son is engaged to the daughter of the enemies who defrauded the knight of his estates, so the knight is playing a double game by using the young man to get close to the family. I can predict this plot a mile off, and there's nothing special about the writing to keep me reading. Sabatini uses the same device (the father and son not knowing each other til the end) in Scaramouche in a scene that Star Wars must have ripped off. Scaramouche was much better than this story though. I won't be finishing this book. It's a pity; I was hoping to enjoy more of Sabatini's work. But the clunky, predictable plot and run-of-the-mill characters effectively killed any interest the historical period would have had for me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: Take a trip to the distant past with this majestic epic from Rafael Sabatini, regarded as one of the masters of the historical action-adventure genre. Set in the times of knights, maidens, and castles, The Tavern Knight follows the fortunes of a gallant nobleman who has had his fortune and property stripped by evil agents of the king. Left with nothing to call his own, he concocts a complex plot to get his revenge. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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