{"subtitle": "a romance of the French revolution", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Idealism can be transferred from one person to another on a vehicle called revenge.\r\n\r\n[from Wikipedia: \r\nScaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying \"Scaramouche\" (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. The book also depicts his transformation from cynic to idealist.]"}, "links": [{"url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaramouche_(novel)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Wikipedia"}, {"url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251034-scaramouche-the-king-maker", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Goodreads"}], "title": "Scaramouche", "covers": [250371, 8249970, 935928, 12842367, 12621828, 14905736], "subject_places": ["France", "Francia"], "subjects": ["France in fiction", "Open Library Staff Picks", "Fiction", "History", "France, fiction", "Fiction, action & adventure", "Fiction, historical", "France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction", "Large type books", "Fiction, historical, general", "Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Photoplay editions", "Drama", "Historia", "Clowns", "Teatro", "Man-woman relationships", "Relations entre hommes et femmes", "Romans, nouvelles", "Histoire", "France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction", "War stories", "Love stories", "Adventure stories"], "key": "/works/OL108456W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2687190A"}}], "subject_times": ["French Revolution, 1789-1799", "Revoluci\u00f3n, 1789-1799", "Revolution, 1789-1799"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 32, "revision": 32, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T22:32:26.738690"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-09T13:10:31.101095"}}