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The Rafael Sabatini Library
Adventure, intrigue, honour and rebellion await in The Rafael Sabatini Library. A collection of Sabatini’s great historical romances, read in full. Here are swordsmen and pirates, exiles and revolutionaries, men of wit and courage cast against the tempests of history. From the duelling grounds of Scaramouche to the high seas of Captain Blood, enter a world where fortune turns upon a blade, identities are remade, and no destiny is settled until the final page.
Episodes
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Captain Blood Chapter 10 - Don Diego
In which the disoriented Don Diego awakens aboard his ship only to find himself a prisoner of the wily Captain Blood, who occupies his vessel and attire by…
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Captain Blood Chapter 9 - The Rebels-Convict
In which a resolute band of escaped convicts seize control of the Cinco Llagas under cover of night, turning the tables on their Spanish captors and reclaiming…
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Captain Blood Chapter 8 - Spaniards
In which the sudden and violent arrival of a Spanish privateer disrupts the uneasy calm of Barbados, bringing with it a fierce and ruthless battle that…
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Captain Blood Chapter 7 - Pirates
In which a fevered search for Doctor Blood entangles Mr. Nuttall, Jeremy Pitt, and the brutal Colonel Bishop in a tense clash of cruelty and desperation amid…
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Captain Blood Chapter 6 - Plans of Escape
In which Peter Blood, the skilled rebel doctor held in bondage on a Barbados plantation, encounters a mixture of disdain and unexpected offers of aid while…
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Captain Blood Chapter 5 - Arabella Bishop
In which Peter Blood, a man of unusual education and gentle manner despite his enslaved state, encounters the kindly and spirited Arabella Bishop, whose…
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Captain Blood Chapter 4 - Human Merchandise
In which Peter Blood and others condemned as rebels are spared execution only to be transported as bond servants to a distant tropical colony, where they are…
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Captain Blood Chapter 3 - The Lord Chief Justice
In which the falsely accused Peter Blood faces the grim rigours of a cruel trial under the infamous Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, whose venomous words and…
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Captain Blood Chapter 2 - Kirke's Dragoons
In which Mr. Blood seeks refuge at a rural homestead to tend a grievously wounded nobleman amidst the aftermath of battle, only to be confronted by the brutal…
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Captain Blood Chapter 1 - The Messenger
In which Dr. Peter Blood, an adventurer turned physician of cool discernment, observes with detached amusement the fervent, ill-armed rebels of Bridgewater…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XXII - We Unsaddle
In which the gentleman confronts a tender reckoning with honour and love as he fulfils a solemn promise, only to summon an unexpected farewell that weighs…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XXI - Louis the Just
In which the King of France, weighed by the heavy mantle of justice and his own weary nature, deliberates gravely on the fate of a nobleman accused of treason…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XX - The “Bravi” at Blagnac
In which our noble narrator finds himself overtaken by tempest and treachery, seeking shelter at a humble inn where shadows lengthen and suspicion takes root…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XIX - The Flint and the Steel
In which the gallant Bardelys entreats the elusive Roxalanne for a final audience beneath the waning October sun, confessing a sincere love entwined with past…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XVIII - Saint-Eustache Is Obstinate
In which the Magnificent Bardelys returns to Lavedan in full splendour to confront the obstinate Chevalier Saint-Eustache, seeking to prevent the arrest of the…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XVII - The Babbling of Ganymede
In which the Marquis de Bardelys, betrayed by his loquacious henchman Rodenard and overheard by Roxalanne de Lavedan, grapples with the humiliation and despair…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XVI - Swords!
In which a tense and deeply personal duel is fought behind closed gates, revealing the skill and resolve of the combatants whilst entwining honour with peril…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XV - Monsieur De Chatellerault Is Angry
In which Monsieur de Chatellerault and I confront each other amidst a tense revelation of deceit, wagers, and threatened honour that expose the darker nature…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XIV - Eavesdropping
In which the noble Marcel Saint-Pol de Bardelys, bound by honour yet tormented by suspicion, overhears a harrowing exchange between Roxalanne and the…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XIII - The Eleventh Hour
In which the Marquis de Bardelys, on the brink of a dire fate, receives an unexpected visitor whose arrival sparks a flicker of hope amidst the turmoil of…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XII - The Tribunal of Toulouse
In which the presumed Marquis of Bardelys is subjected to a vexatious and unfair trial in Toulouse, where his protests of mistaken identity and appeals to…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter XI - The King's Commissioner
In which the gallant Monsieur de Castelroux escorts the narrator as a prisoner towards Toulouse, whilst the chance encounter with the King's Commissioner…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter X - The Risen Dead
In which a perplexing encounter in a provincial inn reveals the unexpected survival of a presumed-dead man, igniting fierce accusations and a tangled web of…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter IX - A Night Alarm
In which the restless narrator encounters a melancholic departure and contemplates his shattered fortunes amidst the sombre hospitality of the Vicomte, only to…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter VIII - The Portrait
In which the fortunes of Monsieur de Lesperon twist unexpectedly as he receives a threatening challenge from Monsieur de Marsac, compelling him to delay his…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter VII - The Hostility of Saint-Eustache
In which the narrative unveils a delicate and increasingly fraught tableau at Lavedan, where the narrator’s burgeoning passion for Roxalanne entangles with the…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter VI - In Convalescence
In which the narrator finds himself convalescing at the chateau of Monsieur de Lavedan, where the presence of unwelcome servants stirs anxious schemes and…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter V - The Vicomte De Lavedan
In which the Marquis de Bardelys awakens wounded and mistaken for a rebel at the chateau of the Vicomte de Lavedan, whose courteous yet treasonous hospitality…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter IV - A Maid in the Moonlight
In which a determined solitary rider, pursued by soldiers in a restless province, seeks refuge beneath the moonlit shadow of a grand but silent château, where…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter III - Rene De Lesperon
In which our narrator embarks on a cautious journey through a troubled Languedoc, navigating rebellion and misdirection with a stubborn resolve characteristic…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter II - The King's Wishes
In which the Marquis Bardelys contemplates the consequences of a foolish wager made in the heat of wine, resolving to seek a wife in Languedoc despite the…
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Bardelys the Magnificent Chapter I - The Wager
In which the Comte de Chatellerault, recently spurned by the King and the fair Roxalanne de Lavedan, appears at a lively Parisian gathering, sparking a clash…