"Don't fling your French at me!"
Jul. 14th, 2003 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgylden... which is one of my favorite quotes from Captain Blood, so I couldn't resist it, no matter how tenuously it links to my post. Which is also links. See what I did there? (Hey, not every post can be sparkling and/or insightful prose.) But they are pirate links (sort of, in part), so there's the connection. Tah dah! Um...
Right, moving on. Here's a small gallery of pirate and swordsman cover art (and rather funny summaries of the books) from Violet Books. If only I were rich, I'd be poor now. Hm, that made better sense in my head. But seriously, check out the "Swashbucklers, Costume Historicals, Heroic Fantasies, and Tales of Chivalry" section of their catalogue. Anthony Hope! A.E.W. Mason! Rafael Sabatini! Drool, drool, drool.
And the summaries of the books I've never heard of are even better than the ones I know. How about "The Golden Hawk" by Frank Yarby: Heroic pirate swashbuckler of the 1690s Caribbean, including such figures as Lazarus the leper captain; a converted Jew forced to watch his own people tortured by the Inquisition; a spectacular woman pirate, Rouge, with seagreen eyes & flaming red hair; & our protagonist, Kit Geraldo, whose secret heritage drove him to piracy.
Or tired of pirates? Then why not "A Son of the Sahara" by Louise Gerard: Swashbuckling bondage fantasy of virtuous English maiden enslaved by sexy shiek-of-araby type villain. The gorgeous color dw repeated as b&w frontis is by Frank Tenney Johnson & captures the novel's swashbuckling attributes. Three other plates are by Joseph Franke, who captures the flapper-on-the-auction-block attributes.
Or maybe "Over the Hills" by Jeffery Farnol: "Being the Narrative of Adam (called Thursday) with particulars of his Adventures, his Joys & Sorrows, his Friends & Right-beloved Enemy." Swashbuckling tale of a foundling forced against his will to masquerade as a high born nobleman.
And I haven't even looked at the westerns or the mysteries or the children's books yet! What I need is a rich, generous, not too bright millionaire with a taste for younger women and a weak heart. I think I'd be an excellent gold-digger, if there were vintage pulp fiction in the bargain.
Hey, a girl's gotta have priorities.
Right, moving on. Here's a small gallery of pirate and swordsman cover art (and rather funny summaries of the books) from Violet Books. If only I were rich, I'd be poor now. Hm, that made better sense in my head. But seriously, check out the "Swashbucklers, Costume Historicals, Heroic Fantasies, and Tales of Chivalry" section of their catalogue. Anthony Hope! A.E.W. Mason! Rafael Sabatini! Drool, drool, drool.
And the summaries of the books I've never heard of are even better than the ones I know. How about "The Golden Hawk" by Frank Yarby: Heroic pirate swashbuckler of the 1690s Caribbean, including such figures as Lazarus the leper captain; a converted Jew forced to watch his own people tortured by the Inquisition; a spectacular woman pirate, Rouge, with seagreen eyes & flaming red hair; & our protagonist, Kit Geraldo, whose secret heritage drove him to piracy.
Or tired of pirates? Then why not "A Son of the Sahara" by Louise Gerard: Swashbuckling bondage fantasy of virtuous English maiden enslaved by sexy shiek-of-araby type villain. The gorgeous color dw repeated as b&w frontis is by Frank Tenney Johnson & captures the novel's swashbuckling attributes. Three other plates are by Joseph Franke, who captures the flapper-on-the-auction-block attributes.
Or maybe "Over the Hills" by Jeffery Farnol: "Being the Narrative of Adam (called Thursday) with particulars of his Adventures, his Joys & Sorrows, his Friends & Right-beloved Enemy." Swashbuckling tale of a foundling forced against his will to masquerade as a high born nobleman.
And I haven't even looked at the westerns or the mysteries or the children's books yet! What I need is a rich, generous, not too bright millionaire with a taste for younger women and a weak heart. I think I'd be an excellent gold-digger, if there were vintage pulp fiction in the bargain.
Hey, a girl's gotta have priorities.