The Black Swan
First edition (UK)
AuthorRafael Sabatini
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
Adventure
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
McClelland and Stewart (CAN)
Publication date
1932
Media typePrint

The Black Swan is a 1932 British historical adventure novel by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. Like the author's earlier Captain Blood, it focuses on piracy in the seventeenth century Caribbean.

Film adaptation

In 1942 the novel served as the basis of the Hollywood film The Black Swan starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.[1]

References

  1. Goble p.403

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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