The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789359047645
Publisher:	True Sign Publishing House Private Limited
Publication date:	10/26/2023
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaors, Hungary in 1865. She was a notable artist, playwright and author. Her father Baron Felix Orczy was a composer and mother Countess Emma Orczy. Due to a peasant revolt her family fled to Brussels then Paris and lastly to London. With her sister Emma studied in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. She learned music and paintings but gained success in paintings at the West London School of Art and at Heartherley. In collaboration with her husband Montague Barstow, Baroness Hungarian fairy tales and began writing romance and fiction. She was appreciated for the translation of Old Hungarian Fairy Tales. Her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks faced rejection for being too short. But her second novel 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' proved a boon for him, she earned name and fame. As a prominent author she wrote dozens of romantic novels, plays and detective stories. Her memorable works-The Man in Grey, The Laughing Cavalier, Skin O' My Tooth, Eldorado- a sequel to the Scarlet Pimpernel, The Old Man in the Corner, The Divine Folly, The Old Scare Crow, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard etc. She was died in London in 1947.

Table of Contents

	Sir Percy Explains	1
	A Question of Passports	51
	Two Good Patriots	63
	The Old Scarecrow	69
	A Fine Bit of Work	89
	How Jean-Pierre Met the Scarlet Pimpernel	109
	Out of the Jaws of Death	131
	The Traitor	141
	The Cabaret de la Liberte	157
	'Needs Must'--	185
	A Battle of Wits	211