Baroness Emma Orczy

The Elusive Pimpernel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel.
It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Chauvelin travels to England as an official representative of the French government tasked with looking after the interests of French citizens, but this is only a cover and his real purpose is to trick Sir Percy Blakeney into returning to France, where he can be captured and put to the guillotine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Booklassic
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789635241026
• Artikelnr.: 43969492

Autorenporträt

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)