The Complete Escapades of The Scarlet Pimpernel: Volume 7-The Laughing Cavalier and The First Sir Percy, Orczy Baroness
Автор: Hannah Rothschild Название: The Baroness ISBN: 1844086054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844086054 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Part musical odyssey, part dazzling love story The Baroness traces Nica`s extraordinary, thrilling journey - from England`s stately homes to the battlefields of Africa, passing under the shadow of the Holocaust, and finally, to the creative ferment of New York`s 1950s jazz scene.
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emma Название: The Scarlet Pimpernel Illustrated ISBN: 1076341780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781076341785 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13780.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.The novel is set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The title is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life: apparently nothing more than a wealthy fop, but in reality a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist. The band of gentlemen who assist him are the only ones who know of his secret identity. He is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). Marguerite Blakeney, his French wife, does not share his secret. She is approached by the new French envoy to England, Chauvelin, with a threat to her brother's life if she does not aid in the search for the Pimpernel. She aids him, and then discovers that the Pimpernel is also very dear to her. She sails to France to stop the envoy.Opening at the New Theatre in London's West End on January 5, 1905, the play became a favourite of British audiences, eventually playing more than 2,000 performances and becoming one of the most popular shows staged in Britain.Orczy's premise of a daring hero who cultivates a secret identity disguised by a meek or ineffectual manner proved enduring. Zorro, The Shadow, The Phantom, Superman and Batman followed within a few decades, and the trope remains a popular one in serial fiction today.
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emma Название: The Old Man in the Corner ISBN: 1077825706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781077825703 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 31030.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man In the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emma Название: The Old Man in the Corner: Large Print ISBN: 1073808947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781073808946 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man In the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories.The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic "penny dreadful" newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit. He narrates all this information, while tying complicated knots in a piece of string, to a female Journalist who frequents the same tea-shop (the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand). They enjoy an antagonistic relationship, as the Journalist attempts to cut the Old Man's ego down to size and the Old Man trumps her every time.
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emma Название: The Old Man in the Corner ISBN: 1073808890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781073808892 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 43670.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man In the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories.The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic "penny dreadful" newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit. He narrates all this information, while tying complicated knots in a piece of string, to a female Journalist who frequents the same tea-shop (the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand). They enjoy an antagonistic relationship, as the Journalist attempts to cut the Old Man's ego down to size and the Old Man trumps her every time.
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emma Название: El Dorado: Large Print ISBN: 1073710742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781073710744 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20680.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.A French language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title La Capture du Mouron Rouge.As well as containing all the main characters from the first book, Eldorado introduces several new characters and features the Baron de Batz, who also turns up in Sir Percy Leads the Band and The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Baron Jean de Batz is a genuine historical figure).
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emmuska Название: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Annotated) ISBN: 1074090985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781074090982 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In the late 18th century, France was in the throes of the French Revolution. Of particular tumult during this conflict were the years known as the "Reign of Terror", a time in which a revolutionary tribunal executed thousands of French citizens. It is during the "Reign of Terror" in which Baroness Emmuska Orczy's "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is set. "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is the story of Sir Percy Blakeney, a chivalrous Englishman married to the beautiful French actress, Marguerite St. Just, with whom he pretends to be a slow-witted dandy. However this is but a ruse to hide his true identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel, who with his "League of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of English aristocrats, rescue French royalists before they can be marched atop the guillotine. Drawing his nickname from the small red flower he draws on his messages, the Scarlet Pimpernel is chased the relentless French agent Citizen Armand Chauvelin as he tries to intervene in the madness of the "Reign of Terror". First published in 1905, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is notable for its introduction to literature of a hero with a secret identity. This edition includes a biographical afterword.
Автор: Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Название: Sir percy leads the band ISBN: 1849023166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849023160 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This novel, set in January and February 1793, follows on from "The Scarlet Pimpernel".
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emma Название: I Will Repay ISBN: 1070649481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070649481 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25280.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orzcy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orzcy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.The story starts before the French revolution. It's 1783 and wealthy Paul D roul de has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrepctfully of his latest infatuation, Ad le de Monterch ri. D roul de had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things -- "no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry."Incensed at the slur on Ad le, who he sees as a paragon of virtue, the Vicomte challenges D roul de to a duel, a fight which D roul de does not want -- for he knows and respects the boy's father, the Duc de Marny.
Автор: Orczy Baroness Название: Old Hungarian Fairy Tales ISBN: 1169210589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781169210585 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 41630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Emma Orczy Baroness Название: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Illustrated) ISBN: 1075972957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781075972959 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.The novel is set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The title is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life: apparently nothing more than a wealthy fop, but in reality a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist. The band of gentlemen who assist him are the only ones who know of his secret identity. He is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). Marguerite Blakeney, his French wife, does not share his secret. She is approached by the new French envoy to England, Chauvelin, with a threat to her brother's life if she does not aid in the search for the Pimpernel. She aids him, and then discovers that the Pimpernel is also very dear to her. She sails to France to stop the envoy.
Автор: Orczy Baroness Emmuska Название: The Scarlet Pimpernel ISBN: 1076175988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781076175984 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 12590.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity. The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness, a little while before the final closing of the barricades for the night.
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