Baroness Emma Orczy

Broschiertes Buch

The Elusive Pimpernel (Aziloth Books)

Beschreibung

In this, the second sequel to her best-selling 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', Baroness Orczy gives us a glimpse into the Pimpernel's past, and pits her hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, against his would-be nemesis, the brilliant but amoral diplomat and spymaster Citizen Chauvelin. Outwitted on numerous occasions by the Scarlet Pimpernel, a humiliated and demoted Chauvelin hatches a plot to wreak vengeance upon the hated Englishman. The French spymaster's machinations leave Sir Percy's wife Marguerite his prisoner, and Blakeney himself honour-bound to meet with his arch-enemy in the French city of Boulogne, hemmed in on all sides by the revolutionary mob. Chauvelin's plan has worked flawlessly. Must Sir Percy and his beautiful wife fall at last into the clutches of the hated Committee of Public Safety? Will the elusive Pimpernel's reckless career end abruptly under the merciless blade of Madame Guillotine?

Autor

Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (1865 - 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Also, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture. Other Books of the Author: . The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) . The Old Man in the Corner (1908) . The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919) . El Dorado (1913) . The Elusive Pimpernel (1908) . I Will Repay (1906)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aziloth Books
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9781909735729
• ISBN-10: 1909735728
• Artikelnr.: 42101102