The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Paperback

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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Paperback

by Emmuska Orczy
$10.99
Sale price  $10.99 Regular price 

Book Overview

Following the events of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious figure continues his efforts to elude captors, while saving French aristocrats from meeting a brutal fate. It's a collection of memorable stories featuring various characters and hidden obstacles along the way.

The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution continues to cripple the country's aristocracy. The Scarlet Pimpernel has managed to maintain his secret identity, while saving those on the chopping block. In The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, his latest adventures are told across 11 thrilling stories. Some of the titles include "A Question of Passports," "The Old Scarecrow," and "How Jean-Pierre Met the Scarlet Pimpernel."

In The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy expands this terrifying yet vibrant portrait of eighteenth-century France. The stakes are higher as both the aristocracy and its hero face looming danger. This book is an exciting narrative filled with unexpected twists and turns.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is both modern and readable.

Back Jacket

An elusive hero continues his quest to rescue French citizens from the guillotine. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy, is a follow-up to The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was released in 1905. This book consists of new stories detailing the famous character's many adventures in eighteenth century France.

ISBN9781513272184
Author Emmuska Orczy
PublisherMint Editions
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages194
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Emmuska Orczy

The byline used by Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy (1865-1947) was Baroness Orczy. Orczy was born in Tarna-Ors, Hungary, the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, and his wife, Emma. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels to Paris and then to London, where she learned to speak English at the age of fifteen. She was educated at West London School of Art. Orcy's first detective stories appeared in magazines, but as a writer, she gained fame in 1903 with the stage version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. In the late 1910s, Orcy and her husband moved to Monte Carlo, where they stayed during the Nazi occupation. Her husband died in 1943, and after World War II, she spent her remaining years in England. Gary Hoppenstand is a professor who teaches in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has published numerous books and articles on topics ranging from nineteenth-century British and American literature to film studies. He has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award, and he has won the Popular Culture Association's National Book Award for his textbook, Popular Fiction: An Anthology. He has worked on a Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste and has published a Penguin Classics omnibus edition of Anthony Hope's two novels The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau.

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