Black Bartlemys' Treasure de Jeffery Farnol

Black Bartlemys' Treasure

Jeffery Farnol

This antiquarian book contains Jeffrey Farnol's fictional tale 'Black Bartlemy's' Treasure'. It is the story of Martin Conisby, a man who escapes slavery aboard the Spanish ship Esmeralda during a battle at sea. With revenge in his mind, he makes his way to England to find the man responsible for the death of his father and for his own enslavement. A masterful work of romance fiction, this text will appeal to lovers of swashbuckling literature, and it is a veritable must-have for fans of Farnol's work. The chapters of this book include: 'Of What Befell on Pembury Hill', 'How I Heard a Song in A Wood at Midnight', 'Tells How I Stole my Breakfast', 'Telleth How I Met one Adam Penfeather', 'How I Came to Conisby Shene', 'Of My Shameful Sufferings and How I Was Delivered Therefrom', etcetera. Jeffery Farnol (1878 - 1952) was a British writer famous for his romance novels and for founding the Regency romantic genre. This book is being republished now complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Jeffery Farnol (1878 - 1952) was a British writer from 1907 until his death, known for writing more than 40 romance novels, some formulaic and set in the Georgian Era or English Regency period and swashbucklers. He, with Georgette Heyer, largely initiated the Regency romantic genre. Farnol published his first romance novel My Lady Caprice during 1907. The success of his early novels caused Farnol to become a professional writer. He produced about 40 novels and volumes of stories and some non-fiction and children's books. His last book was completed by his second wife Phyllis. Two of his early books, The Amateur Gentleman and The Broad Highway, have been issued in a version edited by romance novelist Barbara Cartland. The Amateur Gentleman was adapted for British cinema as 1920 and 1936, American cinema as 1926.