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Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels. He is best known 
for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. The Odyssey of Captain Blood) (1922), 
and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). In all, Sabatini produced 31 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, 
numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays. 

Rafael Sabatini was born in Iesi, Italy, to an English mother (Anna Trafford) and Italian father (Vincenso Sabatini). His parents were 
opera singers who then became teachers. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages, living with his grandfather 
in England, attending school in Portugal, and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was 17, when he returned to England 
to live permanently, he had become proficient in five languages. He quickly added a sixth language – English – to his linguistic 
collection. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, “all the best stories are written in English". 
After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel 
came out in 1902. In 1905, he married Ruth Goad Dixon, the daughter of a Liverpool merchant. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter 
of a century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. The novel, an historical romance set during he French 
Revolution, became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood (1922). All of his earlier 
books were rushed into reprints, the most popular of which was The Sea Hawk (1915). Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a 
new book approximately every year and maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed.

Zijn boeken zijn o.a. te vinden op de volgende site!:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=rafael+Sabatini


Was verzoek:
KeesKruik | xaqkwA op zondag 8 juli 2018 | 23:13 
Heb je toevallig ook boeken van Rafael Sabatini?
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Ja,

maar wel Engelstalig...

Alsjeblieft.