the good old way…

Book review:

Scaramouche

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921

392 pages

These people talk to each other. It’s face-to-face communications. They pay attention to body language and what you do with your face.

Scaramouche ends the way you think it’s going to end: boy gets girl.

But there’s a lot of road to travel before we get to that ending—I think there’s only one reference to a heaving bosom—there is fastidious bad language, and lots of casual use of Latin—there’s a lot of hand kissing, which is something we could do more of these days.

Sabatini was a prolific writer and he wrote this romance novel the way it should be written. The reader gets an eyeful and an earful and a heartful of genuine romance, with all the words that make it work.

It’s still possible to make love in the good old way they did it in the 18th century. Read all about it.

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