The Scarlet Pimpernel - Brossura

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska

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ISBN 10: 0553214020 ISBN 13: 9780553214024

Casa editrice: Bantam Classics, 1992

Riassunto

As the French Revolution gives way to the Reign of Terror, the Scarlet Pimpernel, an English aristocrat known for little more than dandyism and sloth, and his band of swashbuckling companions, risk their lives to enter France in disguise to save French aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. Reissue.

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“Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century.”—Gary Hoppenstand

L'autore:

Baroness Emmuska Orczy artist, playwright, and author, was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary, in 1865. Although all her manuscripts were written in English, she did not learn the language until she and her parents, Baron Felix and Countess Emma Orczy, moved to London when she was fifteen. Schooled as a painter, she married fellow art student John Montagu Barstow in 1894. Although some of her paintings were accepted by the Royal Academy in London, the influence of the works of Dickens and Bret Harte, as well as newly popular light fiction from America, encouraged her to write. A prolific author, the Baroness penned dozens of romantic novels, detective stories, and plays, but is best remembered for The Scarlet Pimpernel. Based on an idea that came to her on a London underground platform, the story took just five weeks to write and become a huge success in print, on stage, and in film. Her other works include The Man in Grey, Skin O' My Tooth, The Laughing Cavalier, and Eldorado, a sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel. Baroness Orczy died in London in 1947.

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• Editore: Bantam Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0553214020
• ISBN 13: 9780553214024
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320