Complete and unabridged, with an illuminating Introduction, this is the timeless masterpiece of pulse-pounding action, daring exploits and passionate romance. Here is the original "Zorro" story, the tale of a "Robin Hood" of Old California-so beloved by the world that it inspired dozens of motion pictures and television series. Although masked heroes in dramatic costumes with secret identities as ordinary, even ineffectual civilians, have been popular with old and young alike for the last seventy or so years, they were almost unknown in literature until the fabulous success of Zorro, first as a magazine serial, then in book form, and finally as a screen blockbuster.