Jolly Roger: Captain Blood Plus the Sea Hawk

Rafael Sabatini

Mar 2013 · DoctorZed Publishing

About this ebook

Jolly Roger - Two novels by Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood plus The Sea-Hawk Two great classic novels together for the price of 1! Rafael Sabatini was a prolific Italian writer who wrote his novels of romance and high adventure in English. Several of these very successful novels were made into notable films. Captain Blood: When first published Captain Blood was an enormously popular novel, which although fiction, was based on a factual historical background. Peter Blood is a superbly written character who is flung from his quiet life as a physician to admiral of a fleet of pirate ships. "It was a great life while it lasted, and it makes a great story."- New York Tribune The Sea-Hawk: A masterwork of historical fiction. A gripping tale of the Spanish Armada and the pirates of the Barbary Coast. Considered to be one of Sabatini's greatest works. High adventure in a sea of pirates.

About the author

Rafael Sabatini was born April 29, 1875 in Jesi, Italy. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages, and attending school in Portugal and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was seventeen, when he went to England to live permanently, he could speak five languages. He quickly added English and chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English." After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini almost a quarter of century before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. It became an international best-seller. Captain Blood followed in 1922 and was equally as successful. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. While he would never achieve the success of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, Sabatini still maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed. By the 1940s, illness forced the writer to slow his prolific method of composition. However, he did write several additional works even during that time. His body of work consists of 31 novels, 8 short story colections and 6 books of poetry. He died February 13, 1950 in Switzerland. He is buried at Adelboden, Switzerland.