The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel
More adventures amongst the terrors of revolutionary France. No one has uncovered the identity of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel - no one except his wife Marguerite and his arch-enemy, citizen Chauvelin. Sir Percy Blakeney is still at large however, evading capture!
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- ISBN: 978-0-7551-2723-8
- EAN: 9780755127238
- Produktnummer: 17039820
- Verlag: House of Stratus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'249 KB
Über den Autor
Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy.She married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales.Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background was the French Revolution and its swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and film and TV versions were later made.Orczy also wrote detective stories which still prove popular and are equally acclaimed within this genre.She died in 1947.
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