The books of the English writer Raphael Sabatini (1875–1950) belong to the category of popular historical fiction for young readers and are easy to read. Entertaining, they carry you into a world that is much more serious than it may seem at first glance. The author follows an indispensable condition of the adventure genre—to serve as engaging reading. He has the gift of a storyteller, keeps the reader in a state of unflagging tension, drawing them into the romance of adventures. In the tales, battles take place, cities are destroyed, conquered, and plundered, people die—but there is no intoxication with violence and cruelty, so characteristic of contemporary Western adventure novels. Among other things, this is also what explains the extraordinary rise of interest in Sabatini these days.