Mistress Wilding

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Théodore Ralli and Lambert de Hondt (II). Somerset, 1685: a gentleman wins a wife in a quarrel over a toast, Monmouth lands at Lyme with a rabble, and a letter that could hang everyone is in the wrong hands. Sabatini was Italian-born, raised across Europe, spoke five languages and chose to write in English because, he said, all the...