Lawrence Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and translator of historical fiction and an acknowledged expert on the history of swashbuckling in literature and film. In addition to his new translations of Alexandre Dumas’s Musketeers cycle—which have brought contemporary English editions of these classics into print for the first time in over a century—he is the editor of The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure and author of historical adventure pieces for The Huffington Post and Literary Hub.

“Cinema of Swords is an exhaustive, informative, thoroughly invigorating retrospective on motion pictures that contain swordfights. Author Ellsworth has brought humor and knowledge to the proceedings, and he knows his stuff. As a former college film history instructor myself, I was pleased to see some of my favorites included—and how could they not be? This bookhas it all!”

Lawrence Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and translator of historical fiction and an acknowledged expert on the history of swashbuckling in literature and film. In addition to his new translations of Alexandre Dumas’s Musketeers cycle—which have brought contemporary English editions of these classics into print for the first time in over a century—he is the editor of The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure and author of historical adventure pieces for The Huffington Post and Literary Hub.

“Cinema of Swords is an exhaustive, informative, thoroughly invigorating retrospective on motion pictures that contain swordfights. Author Ellsworth has brought humor and knowledge to the proceedings, and he knows his stuff. As a former college film history instructor myself, I was pleased to see some of my favorites included—and how could they not be? This bookhas it all!”

Lawrence Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and translator of historical fiction and an acknowledged expert on the history of swashbuckling in literature and film. In addition to his new translations of Alexandre Dumas’s Musketeers cycle—which have brought contemporary English editions of these classics into print for the first time in over a century—he is the editor of The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure and author of historical adventure pieces for The Huffington Post and Literary Hub.

“Cinema of Swords is an exhaustive, informative, thoroughly invigorating retrospective on motion pictures that contain swordfights. Author Ellsworth has brought humor and knowledge to the proceedings, and he knows his stuff. As a former college film history instructor myself, I was pleased to see some of my favorites included—and how could they not be? This bookhas it all!”