A Joyous Adventure, Orczy Emma

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: Beau Brocade
ISBN: 1070495069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070495064
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Цена: 34470.00 T
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Описание: After their recent defeat, the hamlets and villages of Derbyshire are no longer ringing with the wild shouts of Bonny Prince Charlie's Highland Brigade; instead troops loyal to King George are looking for those accused of high treason and are offering a reward of twenty guineas for the death of any traitor or rebel. Philip James Gascoyne, eleventh Earl of Stretton, is in hiding, in fear for his life after being wrongly accused by Sir Humphrey Challoner of being a traitor to the King...

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: The Elusive Pimpernel
ISBN: 1070975591 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070975597
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Цена: 35620.00 T
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Описание: It is the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears that Sir Percy Blakeney-the cunning and heroic Pimpernel-is more than a match for them all. But Sir Percy's spy-catching archenemy, Chauvelin, has devised a plan. In this swashbuckling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy attempts to smuggle French aristocrats out of the country to safety, while Chauvelin plays out a vile plot to eliminate the Pimpernel and his beautiful wife, once and for all. Lighting up movie and television screens and leaping off the pages of books, the adventures of Baroness Orczy's rebel Pimpernel have ignited imaginations the world over for generations. Fans of the classic original, as well as those who enjoy rich historical novels, will thrill to this tale of intrigue set in the days following the French Revolution.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: Petticoat Rule
ISBN: 1070772410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070772417
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Цена: 42520.00 T
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Описание: A story of the French aristocracy, the book concerns Madame de Pompadour's influence over the King and France.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: I Will Repay: Large Print
ISBN: 1070545546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070545547
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Цена: 16080.00 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: The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel: Large Print
ISBN: 1070989444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070989440
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Цена: 18380.00 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: El Dorado: Large Print
ISBN: 1071195727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781071195727
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Цена: 20680.00 T
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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 Emma
Название: A Bride of the Plains: Large Print
ISBN: 1070495727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070495729
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Цена: 18380.00 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: Leatherface
ISBN: 1070898945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070898940
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Цена: 17230.00 T
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Описание: This story takes place during the occupation of Netherlands in 1570's by Spain and describes the battle for Ghent...."It lacked two hours before the dawn on this sultry night early in September. The crescent moon had long ago sunk behind a bank of clouds in the west, and not a sound stirred the low-lying land around the besieged city. To the south the bivouac fires of Alva's camp had died out one by one, and here the measured tread of the sentinels on their beat alone broke the silence of the night. To the north, where valorous Orange with a handful of men-undisciplined, unpaid and rebellious-vainly tried to provoke his powerful foe into a pitched battle, relying on God for the result, there was greater silence still."

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: A Joyous Adventure: Large Print
ISBN: 1070896861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070896861
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Цена: 19530.00 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 Elusive Pimpernel: Large Print
ISBN: 1098714571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098714574
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Цена: 16080.00 T
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: Beau Brocade
ISBN: 1099435374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781099435379
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Цена: 19530.00 T
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Описание: After their recent defeat, the hamlets and villages of Derbyshire are no longer ringing with the wild shouts of Bonny Prince Charlie's Highland Brigade; instead troops loyal to King George are looking for those accused of high treason and are offering a reward of twenty guineas for the death of any traitor or rebel. Philip James Gascoyne, eleventh Earl of Stretton, is in hiding, in fear for his life after being wrongly accused by Sir Humphrey Challoner of being a traitor to the King...

Автор: Orczy Emma
Название: A Bride of the Plains
ISBN: 1070757195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070757193
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 22980.00 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.