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Author | Rafael Sabatini |
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Language | English |
Genre | Historical adventure |
Publication date | 1904 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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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.
In 1920, it was turned into a film, The Tavern Knight , directed by Maurice Elvey [1] made by Britain's largest studio of the silent era, Stoll Pictures. A proposed silent version by Warner Brothers was to star John Barrymore in 1927 but instead the Manon Lescaut story was substituted under the title When a Man Loves .