Sea Hawk, The
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Sea Hawk, The by Rafael Sabatini
By: Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)

The Sea-Hawk
By Raphael Sabatini
THE HUCKSTER

Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining-room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the enterprise of his father of lamented and lamentable memory and to the skill and invention of an Italian engineer named Bagnolo who had come to England half a century ago as one of the assistants of the famous Torrigiani. This house of such a startlingly singular and Italianate grace for so remote a corner of Cornwall deserves, together with the story of its construction, a word in passing. The Italian Bagnolo who combined with his salient artistic talents a quarrelsome, volcanic humour had the mischance to kill a man in a brawl in a Southwark tavern.  As a result he fled the town, nor paused in his headlong flight from the consequences of that murderous deed until he had all but reached t

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4of 5 stars Reviewer: FNH - 6/30/2008 14:46
Subject: Free Audio, Review
Simply put, I enjoyed this. I downloaded it without reading the official blurb, expecting it to be a history of the British sailor known as "the Sea Hawk". Nope, I got that wrong. What we have here is a story of the sea, betrayal and love. In the tradition of these older books we have the set up, the recovery, the chance for revenge, and the endgame. The story is not your hyper paced modern adventure but rather a steady series of events that explore the characters and their motivations. I was enthralled by the story slipping an episode/chapter between every other podcast I've been listening to, and was happily satisfied by the ending. Well worth listening to. Read more of my reviews of Free Audio at http://freeaudioreview.blogspot.com/

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