The Tavern Knight is a 1904 historical adventure novel written by the British-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. It is set during the English Civil Wars. In 1920 it was turned into a film The Tavern Knight directed by Maurice Elvey, it was made by Britain's largest studio of the silent era, Stoll Pictures. A proposed silent version by Warner Brothers was to star John Barrymore in 1927 but instead the Manon Lescaut story was substituted under the title When a Man Loves. | The Tavern Knight (Esprios Classics) by Rafael Sabatini, Paperback | Indigo Chapters