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The Tavern Knight is a 1904 historical adventure novel written by the British-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. It is set during the English Civil Wars. Film adaptation. In 1920, it was turned into a film, The Tavern Knight, directed by Maurice Elvey made by Britain's largest studio of the silent era, Stoll Pictures.
The Tavern Knight is Crispin Galliard, a soldier with a rough reputation who finally gets a long-awaited shot at vengeance after helping Charles II escape the forces of Oliver Cromwell. People new to Sabatini should start with Captain Blood or maybe Mistress Wilding.
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- Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950
- English
- Produced by Polly Stratton, and David Widger
- The tavern knight
- Chapter I. on The March
- Chapter II. Arcades Ambo
- Chapter III. The Letter
- Chapter IV. at The Sign of The Mitre
- Chapter v. After Worcester Field
- Chapter VI. Companions in Misfortune
- Chapter VII. The Tavern Knight's Story
- Chapter VIII. The Twisted Bar
He whom they called the Tavern Knight laughed an evil laugh—such a laugh as might fall from the lips of Satan in a sardonic moment. He sat within the halo of yellow light shed by two tallow candles, whose sconces were two empty bottles, and contemptuously he eyed the youth in black, standing with white face and quivering lip in a corner of the mean...
Towards midnight at last Sir Crispin flung down his cards and rose. It was close upon an hour and a half since Hogan's advent. In the streets the sounds had gradually died down, and peace seemed to reign again in Penrith. Yet was Sir Crispin cautious—for to be cautious and mistrustful of appearances was the lesson life had taught him. “Master Stewa...
It was with a countenance sadly dejected that Crispin returned to his chamber and sate himself wearily upon the bed. With elbows on his knees and chin in his palms he stared straight before him, the usual steely brightness of his grey eyes dulled by the despondency that sat upon his face and drew deep furrows down his fine brow. With a sigh he rose...
For a week after the coming of the King to Worcester, Crispin's relations with Kenneth steadily improved. By an evil chance, however, there befell on the eve of the battle that which renewed with heightened intensity the enmity which the lad had fostered for him, but which lately he had almost overcome. The scene of this happening—leastways of that...
The morn of the third of September—that date so propitious to Cromwell, so disastrous to Charles—found Crispin the centre of a company of gentlemen in battle-harness, assembled at The Mitre Inn. For a toast he gave them “The damnation of all crop-ears.” “Sirs,” quoth he, “a fair beginning to a fair day. God send the evening find us as merry.” It wa...
Through the streets of Worcester the Roundheads dragged Sir Crispin, and for all that he was as hard and callous a man as any that ever buckled on a cuirass, the horrors that in going he beheld caused him more than once to shudder. The place was become a shambles, and the very kennels ran with blood. The Royalist defeat was by now complete, and Cro...
Sir Crispin walked from the window by which he had been standing, to the rough bed, and flung himself full length upon it. The only chair that dismal room contained was occupied by Kenneth. Galliard heaved a sigh of physical satisfaction. “Fore George, I knew not I was so tired,” he murmured. And with that he lapsed for some moments into silence, h...
Nature asserted herself, and, despite his condition, Crispin slept. Kenneth sat huddled on his chair, and in awe and amazement he listened to his companion's regular breathing. He had not Galliard's nerves nor Galliard's indifference to death, so that neither could he follow his example, nor yet so much as realize how one should slumber upon the ve...
Aug 9, 2017 · Set in the times of knights, maidens, and castles, The Tavern Knight follows the fortunes of a gallant nobleman who has had his fortune and property stripped by...
Mar 21, 2023 · The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini. Publication date 1947-01-01 Publisher Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd Collection inlibrary; printdisabled ...
'The Tavern Knight' by Rafael Sabatini is a historical adventure novel set during the English Civil Wars. The story follows the Tavern Knight, whose real identity is actually...
