Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

A Novel

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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) is described as A Novel and is by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The contents list chapters titled Captain Ulysses Ferragut, The Aquarium of Naples, The Wiles of Circe and In Barcelona. Under the heading Captain Ulysses Ferragut, the text says his first gallantries were with an empress, when he was ten years old and the empress six hundred.

A speaker tells Toni that the job is short and well-paid, adding that the Germans are paying for it and that they are going to supply Mediterranean submarines with petrol. A passage says that a woman who was a foreigner met a public opinion ferociously inimical, demanding her immediate punishment, and that nobody had wished to take charge of her defense.

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and politician who also worked as a screenwriter and film director. His fiction is associated with literary realism, and several of his books were adapted into Hollywood films. His titles include "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".