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Old 06-30-2011, 01:40 PM   #15
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If by "swashbuckler" you include adventure stories with lots of action and swordplay, then I would suggest the following:

The Mars sequence of Edgar Rice Burroughs is a fabulous page-turning series! In the same vein is Leigh Brackett {she did the screen play for The Big Sleep and The Empire Strikes Back} who wrote Sea Kings of Mars. Some of her best work is collected in the anthology: Sea Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories. She clearly was inspired by Burroughs {and admits as much} but is a better writer.

A more traditional novel is the Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope which has been continuously available since it was written in 1894. That's one no lover of the swashbuckler should miss.

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