High-Class Adventure?

'sup /book/.

I'm looking for some good adventure novels.  At least, I guess so.  I had an urge to read something with Kings and Dukes, duels, feasts and subterfuge.  I read Once and Future King, figuring Arthurian legend might do it - but that was too much fantasy.  So I read Count of Monte Cristo, and that was spot on!  Riches, Nobility, duels, backstabbing, even going off to fight a war like it was a summer vacation.

So how about it, /book/?  What should I be looking for that would fit this kind of theme?

Well, there's always Dumas' other stuff. The d'Artagnan Cycle, which is The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne.

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae is fucking amazing.

I'm told Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger is pretty decent. I've heard the same about Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood.

Tale of Two Cities by Dickens?

No kings really, but how about H. Rider Haggard's She, King Soloman's Mines and Alan Quartermain. Along with Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King maybe?, would make some great adventure readings.

How about the Horacio Hornblowers or Patrick O'Brian books?