{"product_id":"2940014757799","title":"Scaramouche","description":"New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars\u003cbr\u003e    Biographies of the authors\u003cbr\u003e    Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events\u003cbr\u003e    Footnotes and endnotes\u003cbr\u003e    Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work\u003cbr\u003e    Comments by other famous authors\u003cbr\u003e    Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations\u003cbr\u003e    Bibliographies for further reading\u003cbr\u003e    Indices \u0026amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Raised by a supposed \"godfather,\" Andre'-Louis Moreau knows nothing about his background or his real parents—not even his real name. All he knows is that he wants vengeance against the vicious, arrogant aristocrat who brutally murdered his best friend. As France plummets into revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, Moreau's journey toward revenge takes him through several careers, from lawyer to fugitive to actor and playwright—and eventually to member of the French National Assembly. Hiding with a troupe of itinerant actors, he gleefully plays the traditional Commedia Dell-Arte role of Scaramouche, the trouble-making trickster who, like Shakespeare's fools and jesters, speaks painful truths disguised as harmless comedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRafael Sabatini was a twentieth-century Alexandre Dumas: a masterful creator of swashbuckling historical romances. Mixing real people with fictional characters and actual events with invented ones, Sabatini drew vivid, accurately detailed pictures of revolution-addled France. In Scaramouche, he turns a sweeping adventure epic into a subtle psychological study, as Moreau's odyssey gradually becomes less about revenge than about self-discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes 8 pieces of original art.\u003cbr\u003eJohn D. Cloy, Ph.D., is Bibliographer for the Humanities at the University of Mississippi Libraries. He is the author of Pensive Jester: The Literary Career of W.W. Jacobs (University Press of America, 1996) and Muscular Mirth: Barry Pain and the New Humor (University of Victoria Press, 2003), as well as various articles on turn-of-the-century English literature and humor, comparative literature, and British short fiction.","brand":"Andrew eBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083925176560,"sku":"2940014757799","price":1.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014757799_p0.jpg?v=1763615143","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014757799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}