Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Théodore Ralli and Lambert de Hondt (II). Somerset, 1685: a gentleman wins a wife in a quarrel over a toast, Monmouth lands at Lyme with a rabble, and a letter that could hang everyone is in the wrong hands. Sabatini was Italian-born, raised across Europe, spoke five languages and chose to write in English because, he said, all the best stories are told in it; this early novel already has the swordwork and the irony that made Scaramouche. Fifty-three plates of taverns, cavalry charges and battle scenes by painters from Salvator Rosa to Edvard Munch run through the text, mustering the smoke and confusion of the rising itself.
Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Théodore Ralli and Lambert de Hondt (II). Somerset, 1685: a gentleman wins a wife in a quarrel over a toast, Monmouth lands at Lyme with a rabble, and a letter that could hang everyone is in the wrong hands. Sabatini was Italian-b...