The Elusive Pimpernel - Couverture souple

Orczy, Baroness

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0755111133 ISBN 13 : 9780755111138

Editeur : House of Stratus, 2008

Synopsis

The Elusive Pimpernel "Robespierre!" Envied, reviled, and feared, he rules over all with cold-blooded savagery and merciless cruelty. He oversees the ruthless destruction of his colleagues and comrades of the old Jacobin Clubs. Friends he has none, for he cares about no one but himself, and about nothing but his own exaltation -- and now he has hundreds of enemies in every assembly and club in Paris. But nothing that t... Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Shemoved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then Paris, where she was educated. Orczy alsostudied art in London and exhibited work atthe Royal Academy. Later sheMontagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Fame came in1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was originally a play co-written with her husband. Its background of Revolution in France and swashbuckling hero, 'Sir Percy Blakeney', was to prove immensely popular. Sequels followed and many years later film and TV versions are enduringly popular, with new productions from time to time. However, Orczy alsoalso wrote detective stories which have a following today amongst those intersted in the genre. She died in 1947.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this, the sequel to ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’, French agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is as crafty as ever, but Sir Percy Blakeney is more than a match for his arch-enemy. Meanwhile the beautiful Marguerite remains wholly devoted to Sir Percy, her husband. Cue more swashbuckling adventures as Sir Percy attempts to smuggle French aristocrats out of the country to safety.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: House of Stratus
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755111133
• ISBN 13: 9780755111138
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288