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The Fencing Master

Name: The Fencing Master
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Arturo Pérez-ReverteOriginal title El maestro de esgrima (Spanish, 1988)

The Fencing Master may also refer to: The Fencing Master , a nineteenth century novel by Alexandre DumasThe Fencing Master is a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte set in Spain at the middle of the 19th century. Amid the political turmoil of the Glorious Revolution where conspiracy and intrigue are commonplace, fencing master Don Jaime Astarloa tries to live as he always has. Subsisting on meager funds gained through teaching fencing to the sons of the nobility, the anachronistic Don Jaime lives by one universal code: "to be honest, or at least honorable--anything, indeed, that has its roots in the word honor."

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte book The Fencing Master

Source: The Fencing Master