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Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste seies as a homage to the adventure books that had been his own initiation into the world of reading as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Captain Alatriste is a swordsman for hire in Spain in the 1620s - a time when Court intrigue is high aContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Book review: Arturo Perez-Reverte's *Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste*
Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste Arturo Perez-Reverte Plume Paperback 288 pages November 2006 Captain Alatriste is supposed to be a throwback to the days of the swashbuckling movies of Errol Flynn, but unfortunately he buckles und ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 272 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0753820870
- ISBN-13: 9780753820872
- Publisher: Phoenix Press
- Pub date: Jun 01, 2006
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780753820872 | Paperback | $11.25 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 253pp, Weidenfeld, £9.99 Historical adventure novels are moral utopias: dreams of simpler times, when ethical questions were more transparent, and when the proper response to an insult was not to seethe in yo ... (read full critics)