If you’re just a poor boy you’ll appreciate this monstrosity sized FREE audiobook from LibriVox. From the author of Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk comes part of the inspiration for Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini!
If nothing else this audiobook will make you do the fandango! Check out the first line…
“He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
Scaramouche
By Rafael Sabatini; Read by Gord Mackenzie
36 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 17 Hours 12 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 27, 2007
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,” but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship.
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Incidentally, there’s a terrific 2005 BBC Radio 4 documentary on Bohemian Rhapsody available as a torrent on RadioArchive.cc:
I Will Not Let You Go: The Bohemian Rhapsody Story
And, here’s the trailer to the 1952 movie version of Scaramouche:
Posted by Jesse Willis
I’VE LONG MAINTAINED I WANT THE OPENING LINE FROM SCARAMOUCHE PUT ON MY GRAVESTONE…