Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel: 7 - Brossura

Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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ISBN 10: 0755114124 ISBN 13: 9780755114122

Casa editrice: House of Stratus Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

It is Paris, 1794, and Robespierre’s revolution is inflicting its reign of terror. The elusive Scarlet Pimpernel is still at large – so far. But the sinister agent Chauvelin has taken prisoner his darling Marguerite. Will she act as a decoy and draw the Scarlet Pimpernel to the enemy? And will our dashing hero evade capture and live to enjoy a day ‘when tyranny was crushed and men dared to be men again’.

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L'autore:

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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• Editore: House of Stratus Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755114124
• ISBN 13: 9780755114122
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 338