The First Sir Percy - Couverture souple

Orczy, Baroness

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0755116593 ISBN 13 : 9780755116591

Editeur : House of Stratus, 2008

Synopsis

The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney. Diogenes and his friends Socrates and Pythagoras swear allegiance to the royalist cause. Their undivided loyalty results in many adventures – and more than one foe.

A propos du livre

À propos 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. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy. She married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background was the French Revolution and its swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and film and TV versions were later made. Orczy also wrote detective stories which still prove popular and are equally acclaimed within this genre. She died in 1947.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: House of Stratus
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0755116593
• ISBN 13: 9780755116591
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 298
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