Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Laughing Cavalier is a 1913 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, which revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of Orczy's famous character, the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story takes place in Holland in 1623/1624 and is partly inspired by Frans Hals' painting The Laughing Cavalier: in the novel, Blake is Frans Hals' adopted son and the man who poses for the painting of the Laughing Cavalier. The sequel to this book, continuing the story of Percy Blake, is The First Sir Percy. (Wikipedia)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965370821
• Artikelnr.: 55681202

Autorenporträt

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 ¿ 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring 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. (Wikipedia)