By The Gods Beloved - Brossura

Orczy, Baroness

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755116577 ISBN 13: 9780755116577

Casa editrice: House of Stratus, 2008

Riassunto

Mark and Hugh are school friends. When Mark visits Hugh's house, where there is the most odd museum, complete with mummies. For Hugh's father is an archaeologist and Egyptologist. One day, Mark receives word from his friend to 'Come at once if you can.' He finds Hugh has taken over his father's work and is in possession of a secret encoded in a papyrus that is thousands of years old. He has discovered that the descendants of the ancient pharaohs are still living in the Lybian desert. The two friends set out at once for Egypt. Their journey involves incredible adventures, strange sights, a beautiful princess and great dangers...

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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
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755116577
• ISBN 13: 9780755116577
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308