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...Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist who, like Dumas père, uses melodrama as a billboard to lure the casual pleasure seeker into a performance more moving and intelligent than he expects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rapier Envy, Anyone? | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...BELLARION, THE FORTUNATE - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Mediaeval scholar into Renaissance warrior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cream... | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...BELLARION - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Mr. Sabatini's new hero is but a few hours out of the convent where he has grown from a nursling to huge-thewed manhood, when he finds himself racing through the footways of Casale with angry pikemen after him. He pauses by a studded door like the Sire de Maletroit's door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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