The Old Man in the Corner: Large Print, Orczy Emma

Автор: Baroness Orczy
Название: The Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 0241341337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241341339
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades, he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel.

But will his beautiful French wife Marguerite unwittingly prove his downfall? Baroness Orczy's swashbuckling 1905 novel set the standard for all future tales of masked avengers and was later adapted into a famous stage play and several film versions. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Автор: Orczy Baroness
Название: Scarlet pimpernel
ISBN: 0008278768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008278762
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

Автор: Orczy, Baroness
Название: Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 014037454X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140374544
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Orczy, Baroness
Название: Scarlet pimpernel
ISBN: 1473697190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473697195
Издательство: Hodder
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Цена: 10110.00 T
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Описание: Baroness Orczy`s classic tale of adventure, set during the French Revolution. Also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: Castles in the Air: Large Print
ISBN: 1699218110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781699218112
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 10330.00 T
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Описание: Mr. Hector Ratichon-onetime aide to Robespierre and confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte-is a rascal and rogue of the highest order. Nevertheless, his service to France and his resulting adventures make entertaining reading.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: A Joyous Adventure
ISBN: 1701976587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781701976580
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 26430.00 T
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Описание: Not a Scarlet Pimpernel novel, but one set in the same universe. Excerpt: This interview had occurred in May in the year 1800. A few months later half a dozen were gathered round a deal table in the low whitewashed room of the _Cabaret du P lican, a lonely house which stands at the extreme end of the village street of Soulanges. They were eating bread and cheese and drinking cider. The room gave on a side door of the cabaret. It was bare, save for the table, a rickety bench or two and an old-fashioned clock up on the wall. In the corner nearest the door a number of muskets, staves and scythes were propped up. On the table a couple of tallow candles guttered in their pewter sconces._

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: A Bride of the Plains
ISBN: 1653066946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781653066940
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13780.00 T
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Описание: The story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros. On this particular fourteenth of September it is Andor's turn to go unwillingly into the army for three years. On the eve preceding it, at the village merrymaking, as the whole population spends its last happy hours trying to forget the hideous events that will occur in the morning, he tokens himself to Elsa the village beauty. When Andor returns from Bosnia, his village has changed, but so has he.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: I Will Repay: Large Print
ISBN: 1676562052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781676562054
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 25280.00 T
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Описание: 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.-Baroness Emma Magdolna Roz lia M ria Jozefa Borb la "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.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: His Majesty`s Well-Beloved
ISBN: 1653068647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781653068647
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13780.00 T
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Описание: An Episode in the Life of Mr. Thomas Betteron as told by His Friend John. "After that memorable Day, Mistress, we were like naughty Children who were being punished for playing truant out of School. For Weeks and Months our Lives went on with dreary monotony, with never a chance of seeing Something of that outside World of which we had caught a glimpse. You continued to sew and to scrub and to be at the beck and call of a Scold. I went on copying legal Documents till my very Brain appeared atrophied, incapable of a single happy Thought or of a joyous Hope."

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: Castles in the Air
ISBN: 1699218102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781699218105
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 12630.00 T
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Описание: Mr. Hector Ratichon-onetime aide to Robespierre and confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte-is a rascal and rogue of the highest order. Nevertheless, his service to France and his resulting adventures make entertaining reading.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: The Old Man in the Corner
ISBN: 1654463434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781654463434
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 11490.00 T
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Описание: A nameless old man sits in the corner of a cozy London tea shop, and without leaving his seat, solves baffling crimes reported to him by an admiring lady journalist. Using only methods of pure deduction, the eccentric, self-assured sleuth unravels the mysteries behind a wide range of criminal acts - from gruesome murders (The Lisson Grove Mystery) and daring thefts (The Affair at the Novelty Theatre) to brilliant deceptions (The Liverpool Mystery) and deadly blackmail schemes (The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh). Set in the fog-shrouded streets of London, where gas lamps flicker in the gloom and details of lurid crimes splash across the pages of the daily papers, these ingenious, well-crafted stories by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel are among the first and great collections of detective fiction. They will delight devotees of Sherlock Holmes and other mystery-loving fans.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: The Tangled Skein
ISBN: 1653660465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781653660469
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 18380.00 T
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Описание: In The Tangled Skein, Baroness Orczy does not paint Queen Mary nearly so black as she is usually portrayed. Indeed Mary is depicted as so passionately loving as to be almost lovable, a woman of strong emotions, invariably swayed by justice. The tangling of the skein is due to Mary's supposititious love for Robert d'Esclade, fifth Duke of Wessex, whom the people of England desire to become King Consort. He is the embodiment of all chivalry, and every virtue dear to the heart of an Englishman. He is, so far, fancy free, but beyond deep respect for, and loyalty to, his Queen, he has no other feeling, and the idea of marriage with her merely for political reasons is repulsive to him. He is at the same time half betrothed, but not bindingly, to Lady Ursula Glynde, whom he has not seen since her babyhood. Wessex is repelled by the idea of having his wife thrust upon him in any way, and purposely avoids the girl, in which he is, unknown to himself, aided and abetted by the Queen, who tries jealously to guard him against falling a victim to Ursula's undoubted fascinations. Add to this trio, the powerful Cardinal Moreno and Phillip II of Spain and the skein only becomes more tangled. (source: Wikipedia)