"In approaching The Historical Nights' Entertainment I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the color available from surviving records, a group of more or less famous events. I would select for my purpose those which were in themselves bizarre and resulting from the interplay of human passions, and whilst relating each of these events in the form of a story, I would compel that story scrupulously to follow the actual, recorded facts without owing anything to fiction, and I would draw upon my imagination, if at all, merely as one might employ color to fill in the outlines which history leaves grey, taking care that my color should be as true to nature as possible. For dialogue I would depend upon such scraps of actual speech as were chronicled in each case, amplifying it by translating into terms of speech the paraphrases of contemporary chroniclers." -- From Sabatini's Preface
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IN 1093 the Moors of the Almoravide dynasty, under the Caliph Yusuf, swept irresistibly upwards into the Iberian Peninsula, recapturing Lisbon and Santarem in the west, and pushing their conquest as far as the river Mondego. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir Walter, Frey Miguel, Count Guido, Cesare Borgia, Don Rodrigo, Affonso Henriques, Sir Lewis, Sir Richard, King Philip, Lord Robert, Miss Stewart, Don Sebastian, Lady Castlemaine, Holy Office, Queen of France, Captain King, Holy Father, Madame von Platen, Boris Godunov, Anne of Austria, Don Antonio, Diego de Susan, Duke of Valentinois, Grand Master, Grishka Otrepiev New!
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IN 1093 the Moors of the Almoravide dynasty, under the Caliph Yusuf, swept irresistibly upwards into the Iberian Peninsula, recapturing Lisbon and Santarem in the west, and pushing their conquest as far as the river Mondego. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir Walter, Frey Miguel, Count Guido, Cesare Borgia, Don Rodrigo, Affonso Henriques, Sir Lewis, Sir Richard, King Philip, Lord Robert, Miss Stewart, Don Sebastian, Lady Castlemaine, Holy Office, Queen of France, Captain King, Holy Father, Madame von Platen, Boris Godunov, Anne of Austria, Don Antonio, Diego de Susan, Duke of Valentinois, Grand Master, Grishka Otrepiev New!
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- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas in Front Matter
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père in Front Matter
- The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series by Rafael Sabatini in Front Matter
- Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini in Back Matter
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