Name: The Sea-Hawk
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Author: Rafael Sabatini
ISBN: 9781512284690

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rafael Sabatini

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

114

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

28x21.6x0.6 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9781512284690

Synopsis "The Sea-Hawk"

Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal acquaintance with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he was ill-favoured. But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his perceptions are not always normal. He says, for instance, of Anne of Cleves, that she was the "ugliest woman that ever I saw." As far as we can glean from his own voluminous writings it would seem to be extremely doubtful whether he ever saw Anne of Cleves at all, and we suspect him here of being no more than a slavish echo of the common voice, which attributed Cromwell's downfall to the ugliness of this bride he procured for his Bluebeard master. To the common voice from the brush of Holbein, which permits us to form our own opinions and shows us a lady who is certainly very far from deserving his lordship's harsh stricture. Similarly, I like to believe that Lord Henry was wrong in his pronouncement upon Sir Oliver, and I am encouraged in this belief by the pen-portrait which he himself appends to it.

Rafael Sabatini

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Rafael Sabatini was an English writer of Italian origin known for his romance and adventure novels, among which stand out The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, and Captain Blood. Sabatini wrote thirty-one novels, several short stories, and a play.

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