The Sea Hawk
byRafael Sabatini
CompletedAdventure,HistoricalPublic domain
Public-domain text, with thanks to Standard Ebooks and other free-text projects.
Sir Oliver Tressilian, a retired seafarer, lives in Cornwall with his half-brother Lionel. After Lionel kills the brother of Oliver’s beloved Rosamund, Oliver protects him by letting it be assumed that he himself did the deed. Lionel, becoming paranoid that Oliver will one day expose him, has Oliver kidnapped and sold into slavery.
