 | Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $3.84 This edition is wonderfully illustrated by the famed artist N. C. Wyeth.
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 | Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: $49.99 This edition is, perhaps, the best of the illustrated editions. Sure, the N. C. Wyeth paintings are better, but this version is chock-full of enough stirring pictures to get even the most jaded reader completely and utterly hooked.
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 | Kidnapped (Scribner Storybook Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $4.50 Also illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
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 | Captain Blood (Penguin Classics) by Rafael Sabatini
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $1.60 The movie version of Captain Blood launched Errol Flynn to stardom.
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 | The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (Scribner's Illustrated Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: $4.99 Yet another fabulous adventure, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
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 | Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.66 Sabatini's first best-seller, and likely his finest effort.
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 | The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.98 The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini bears no resemblance to the Errol Flynn movie of the same name.
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 | Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Thankfully, Arturo Perez-Reverte picks-up where Rafael Sabatini left-off. The Viggo-Mortenson-starring movie version came-and-went so fast, that it must be a real stinker; but the book thrills.
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 | Purity of Blood (Captain Alatriste) by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Buy new: $7.18 / Used from: $0.01 This is the satisfying sequel to Captain Alatriste.
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 | The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Buy new: $20.30 / Used from: $0.01 Follow-up to Purity of Blood, this is the winning third book in the Captain Alastriste series.
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 | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Signet classics) by Howard Pyle
Buy used from: $0.01 Only Howard Pyle captures "swashbuckling" as well as N. C. Wyeth.
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 | The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
Buy used from: $4.38 Alexandre Dumas left-off where Rafael Sabatini picked-up. An excellent edition, translated by Richard Pevear.
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library) by Alexandre Dumas père
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $7.95 Nobody wrote "swashbuckling" like Dumas.
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 | The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
Buy used from: $0.35 Trust me: skip the Leonardo DiCaprio movie version and read the book instead.
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 | A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.78 For years this work was credited to a mysterious "Captain Johnson"; but it is now attributed to Daniel Defoe, who often authored works under pseudonyms.
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 | Captain Singleton (Dodo Press) by Daniel Defoe
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $2.92 Read Defoe's Robinson Crusoe if you want to live on an island for 20+ years; but read Captain Singleton if you want to travel the world. My favorite pirate yarn.
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 | The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics) by Baroness Orczy Emmuska
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Sir Percy is a dark-horse, for sure!
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 | Ivanhoe (Oxford World's Classics) by Sir Walter Scott
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $0.01 No book captures jousting quite like Ivanhoe.
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 | Rob Roy (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.01 A small step behind Ivanhoe, but nonetheless another classic.
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 | The Mark of Zorro (Special Edition) (Colorized / Black and White)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.15 Errol Flynn was a better "swashbuckler," but only Tyrone Power was "Zorro."
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 | Zorro, the Gay Blade
Buy used from: $33.49 George Hamilton is very funny in this well-done spoof.
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 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $12.74 The quintessential swashbuckler in his most memorable role!
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 | The Sea Hawk
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.18 From Rafael Sabatini's best-seller; it launched Errol Flynn to stardom.
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 | Captain Blood
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.00 Another Sabatini tale that helped make Errol Flynn.
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 | Treasure Island
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $10.99 The best movie version of Stevenson's classic, starring a very likeable Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and the Little Rascal's Jackie Cooper as Jim.
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 | Ivanhoe
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.50 From what I remember, Robert Taylor is intense in this gorgeous movie version of Sir Walter Scott's best work; but, honestly, what I remember most is the beauty of Liz Taylor.
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 | Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.40 This movie is satisfying, but, no matter what the box-office receipts say, the sequel sucks.
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 | The Complete Musketeers (The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $19.97 Fun-filled, much-enjoyed screen versions of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale.
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