''The King's Cavalier'' is a 1950,

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adventure novel Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction. History In the introduction to the ''Encycloped ...

by the American writer

Samuel Shellabarger Samuel Shellabarger (18 May 1888 – 21 March 1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels. Born 18 May 1888 in Washington, D.C., Shellabarger was orphaned in infancy, upon the death of both ...

. It takes place in

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during the reign of Francis I. It peaked at the third place on the bestselling fiction list in America.McParland p.55

References

Bibliography

* Beetz, Kirk H. ''Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, Volume 3''. Beacham Publishing, 1996. * Burt, Daniel S. ''The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. * McParland, Robert. ''Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

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