Author
Stanley John Weyman
1855–1928 4 volumes Adventure & the Sea
The life
Stanley John Weyman was an English novelist who practised at the bar without success — briefly jailed in France on suspicion of spying while on holiday — and turned to historical romance instead. A Gentleman of France and Under the Red Robe made him the leading swashbuckler of the 1890s, admired by Stevenson and Wilde, and he wrote his best work sitting in a Shropshire garden.
Where to start
For the Cause
96 pages — the shortest way into Weyman, not the greatest.
Paris had never seemed to the eye more peaceful than on a certain November evening in the year 1589: and this although many a one within its walls resented the fineness of that night as a mockery, a scoff at the pain of some and the fury of others.
Paintings from these volumes
In the library