Originally titled The Curse of Capistrano in its 1919 debut, this exciting tale achieved immortal fame thanks to Douglas Fairbanks’s 1920 blockbuster film, The Mark of Zorro—a cinematic triumph that inspired Johnston McCulley to retitle his novel and dedicate it to Fairbanks. Set in Mexican California during the 1820s, the story follows the career of Don Diego Vega, by all appearances an effete and foppish aristocrat. But Vega’s timorous reputation is nothing more than a mask to conceal his alter ego: a California Robin Hood known as Zorro, whose swift blade strikes down those who exploit the poor and oppressed. The inspiration for dozens of film and television adaptations, The Mark of Zorro remains a paradigm of swashbuckling adventure. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
1. A Stormy night
2. The Man in the Mask
3. Don Diego Wants a Wife
4. Lolita's Three Admirers
5. A Visit From Captain Ramon
6. The Chase
7. At the Presidio
8. The Whipping Post
9. At the Hacienda of Don Alejandro
10. The Pulidos Are Arrested
11. At the Jail
12. The Mark of Zorro
13. "Take Off Your Mask, Senor!"