Scaramouche: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Scaramouche, credited to Rafael Sabatini, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini. Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him "Scaramouche" (also called Scaramuccia, a roguish character in the commedia dell'arte), but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship. The later film version includes one of the longest, and many believe, best swashbuckling sword-fighting scenes ever filmed. The novel has a memorable start (Book I: The Robe, Chapter I, 'The Republican'): "He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillacs had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it." (Summary by Gord)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Scaramouche
• Author credits: Rafael Sabatini
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 17:11:41

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• adventure

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01-01 The Republican — 24:39
2. 01-02 The Aristocrat — 27:20
3. 01-03 The Eloquence of M. de Vilmorin — 26:35
4. 01-04 The Heritage — 15:21
5. 01-05 The Lord of Gavrillac — 12:24
6. 01-06 The Windmill — 21:09
7. 01-07 The Wind — 37:48
8. 01-08 Omnes Omnibus — 23:13
9. 01-09 The Aftermath — 23:09
10. 02-01 The Trespassers — 38:37
11. 02-02 The Service of Thespis — 22:55
12. 02-03 The Comic Muse — 30:18
13. 02-04 Exit Monsieur Parvissimus — 23:28
14. 02-05 Enter Scaramouche — 23:56
15. 02-06 Climene — 38:45
16. 02-07 The Conquest of Nantes — 25:48
17. 02-08 The Dream — 18:57
18. 02-09 The Awakening — 53:41
19. 02-10 Contrition — 26:30
20. 02-11 The Fracas at the Theatre Feydau — 48:25
21. 03-01 Transition — 43:14
22. 03-02 Quos Deus Vult Perdere — 21:33
23. 03-03 President le Chapelier — 25:58
24. 03-04 At Meudon — 41:47

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