The Great Escape
Philip Purser, 18 August 1994
The Fortunes of Casanova, and Other Stories
by Rafael Sabatini, selected by Jack Adrian.
Oxford, 284 pp., £15.95, January 1994,9780192123190 Show More
by Rafael Sabatini, selected by Jack Adrian.
Oxford, 284 pp., £15.95, January 1994,
“... Errol Flynn (as star) above two of them, Sabatini was not only a ‘history-teller,’ as George MacDonald Fraser defines his art in a foreword to The Fortunes of Casanova, but one who delighted in a spot of swashbuckling. At the same time he was recognised as a serious historian who had published authoritative biographies of Torquemada and Cesare Borgia. He ... ”