Word: weyman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...romance written frankly for pleasure and excitement. Sabatini is not at all "the modern Dumas" as some critics insist on calling him. He doesn't write in the grand manner of the great Frenchman, but rather on the smaller, but often equally exciting scale of Stevenson and Stanley Weyman. The Sea-Hawk is accurate and picturesque in history; but it never drags or preaches or forces historical scholarship or tedious archaisms upon the reader...