For instance:
The great theatrical attraction of London in that week, or in that Autumn for that matter, was undoubtedly The Whip, a drama of racing and high society which in addition to a highly sensational plot also offered the astonishing spectacles of a rail crash, a pack of hounds on stage, and a thrilling horse raceWhy is this not revived more often? Our protagonist also enjoys the London crowds belting out a big number about the Kaiser's naval ambitions by two young things he's never heard of - an American called Kern and his English lyricist, Wodehouse.
The book I will read before The Pyrates, since you are so interested, is Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood. Sabatini wrote rip-roarers, apparently - GMF certainly indicates this in Mr American - and Captain Blood and Scaramouche are the famous ones, and Captain Blood seems like an ur-text for The Pyrates, which is every pirate story ever rolled into one, along with some Hollywood post-modernism in a tightrope way that somehow avoids being maddeningly arch (which it is, a bit, in The Reavers).
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