The Scarlet Pimpernel
Is he in heaven?-Is he in hell?That demmed, elusive Pimpernel?Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but in abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy's estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly sets their agent on her husband's track. Percy's escapades, and Marguerite's daring journey to France to save him from the guillotine, keep the readerturning the pages of Baroness Orczy's well-paced romantic adventure.Written in just five weeks i…
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Weitere Autoren: Daly, Nicholas (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-250874-4
- EAN: 9780192508744
- Produktnummer: 25452325
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'342 KB
Über den Autor
Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, Wesleyan University, and Dartmouth College. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he serves on the advisory boards of the Journal of Victorian Culture, Novel, and the Irish University Review. His academic publications include the monographs Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle (CUP, 1999),Literature, Technology and Modernity (CUP, 2004), Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (CUP, 2009), and The Demographic Imagination (CUP, 2015), and many articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture.
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