The Carolinian
by Rafael Sabatini
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Excitement and anticipation are rife in the New World - it is a land offering new beginnings and new opportunities. Yet it is also a land of intrigue, deception and deadly opposition. Centred on the rich and fertile soils of Carolina at the time of the American War of Independence, 'The Carolinian 'charts the interwoven stories of a host of characters.Tags
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Set in South Carolina from 1775 to 1779, this novel is the tale of Harry Latimer and Myrtle Cary, two lovers from opposing sides of the American revolution. Themes of duty and trust, appearance versus substance, abound in both the love story and the action (both before and after the start of the war).
Not being in the mood for a book that would depress me, I will admit to my shame that about a quarter of the way through, I skipped to the end to make sure that I would like the way the story came out. I should have trusted Sabatini! Knowing the ending did lessen some of the tension but I still found myself wondering about certain characters even so.
Not being in the mood for a book that would depress me, I will admit to my shame that about a quarter of the way through, I skipped to the end to make sure that I would like the way the story came out. I should have trusted Sabatini! Knowing the ending did lessen some of the tension but I still found myself wondering about certain characters even so.
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1924
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- American Revolution (1775 | 1783)
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- 69
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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