The Celestial City, 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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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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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: A True Woman: Large Print
ISBN: 1707187665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781707187669
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 32170.00 T
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Описание: Luke de Mountford, heir to his uncle Lord Radcliffe, asks for Louise Harris's hand in marriage. Just when everything seems to be going well, another nephew, Philip, turns up with a claim to his uncle's fortune and Luke is forced to reveal to Louise that their financial future may not be as guaranteed as he had hoped. When Philip is discovered stabbed in a cab, suspicion naturally falls on Luke who certainly has a motive for murder. The head of the Criminal Investigation Department, who happens to be Louisa's uncle, reveals his evidence before the ensuing trial and allows Colonel Harris to conceal himself in his office while a witness for the prosecution details the points of the evidence he will give at the trial. He also reveals that he intends to allow Luke time to escape should the verdict at the inquest be against him.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: Castles in the Air
ISBN: 1701812800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781701812802
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Цена: 14930.00 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.In 1903, Orczy and her husband wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. The play was accepted for production in the West End and though initially drew only small audiences, it ran four years, broke many stage records, was translated and produced in other countries, and underwent several revivals. This theatrical success generated huge sales for the novel and Orczy went on to write over a dozen sequels. Orczy's novels were racy, mannered melodramas and she favored historical fiction.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: His Majesty`s Well-Beloved
ISBN: 1704745829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781704745824
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: I Will Repay: Large Print
ISBN: 1706851278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706851271
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Цена: 28730.00 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.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: A Joyous Adventure
ISBN: 1701976587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781701976580
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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 Baroness Emma
Название: The Old Man in the Corner
ISBN: 1701354640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781701354647
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 19530.00 T
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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.Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Roz lia M ria Jozefa Borb la Orczy de Orczi) (September 23, 1865 - November 12, 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.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 1695721535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781695721531
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Цена: 52870.00 T
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Описание: More adventures amongst the terrors of revolutionary France. No one has uncovered the identity of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel - no one except his wife Marguerite and his arch-enemy, citizen Chauvelin. Sir Percy Blakeney is still at large however, evading capture...

Автор: Orczy Baroness Emma
Название: I Will Repay: Large Print
ISBN: 1712890107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781712890103
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 22980.00 T
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Описание: Wealthy Paul D roul de has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully 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. Incensed at the slur on Ad le, whom 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. How will he respond and what will happen?