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Baroness Orczy

 
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ISBN 10 : 1594628505 ISBN 13 : 9781594628504
Editeur : Book Jungle, 2007

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

Set in Holland in 1624, The First Sir Percy, by Baroness Orczy, is another adventure featuring Sir Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel who goes by the name Diogenes. The book is a sequel to The Laughing Cavalier and picks up the story a couple of months after the events in the first book.

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Éditeur
Book Jungle
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1594628505
ISBN 13 
9781594628504
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
308
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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