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Sard Harker
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515442479
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Jan 1 2020
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
First published in 1924, Sard Harker is a romantic adventure novel by John Masefield set amid revolution and intrigue in a fictional Central American republic.
Best known as a poet and later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Masefield here turns to prose romance and political adventure. The narrative follows Sard Harker, an Englishman drawn into the unstable affairs of the republic of Santa Barbara, where shifting loyalties, concealed identities, and revolutionary fervour threaten both personal safety and public order.
Blending suspense with reflective observation, the novel moves between action and atmosphere. Masefield's prose retains something of the cadence and imagery of his poetic work, lending the narrative a sense of landscape and mood uncommon in straightforward adventure fiction. Beneath the surface of conspiracy and peril lies a meditation upon allegiance, honour, and the uncertain boundaries between idealism and pragmatism.
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