SCARAMOUCHE
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Scaramouche is a historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921 by the Houghton Mifflin Company. A romantic adventure, Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution., who joins with a roving band of actors, eventually becoming an actor who portrays Scaramouche (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. The book also depicts his transformation from cynic to idealist.
It has been adapted into four films in the United States alone.
The three-part novel opens with the line: "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." This line is Sabatini's epitaph, inscribed on his gravestone in Adelboden, Switzerland. It’s inscribed on an archway in the entrance of the Humanities Quadrangle at Yale University
SCARAMOUCHE
$12.00