3.7
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is a classic novel of romance and intrigue. The Scarlet Pimpernel is an unknown English gentleman who risks his life to help targeted French aristocrats escape the persecution of the revolutionary government in 1792 France. Lady Blakeney is a French woman who is married to an English gentleman. Lady Blakeney is approached by a French agent who needs her help in learning the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel. At first Lady Blakeney refuses, but when she learns that her brother has been discovered collaborating with the Scarlet Pimpernel, Lady Blakeney agrees to help in exchange for her brother's safe return to England.
Literature & FictionLiteraryReference
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
LENGTH156
LANGUAGEEN
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art. In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks. In 1903, she and her husband coauthored her most famous work, The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels to the novel. She also created a number of memorable detectives: Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk of Scotland Yard, who heads the "Female Department" (her cases are collected in *Lady Molly of Scotland Yard*, 1910); Monsieur Fernand, a Napoleonic-era secret agent (*The Man in Grey*, 1918); and Patrick Mulligan, a shady attorney (*Skin o' My Tooth*, 1928). Her greatest detective was the Old Man in the Corner, probably the first of the "armchair" detectives. He sits in a chair in a London tea shop, unraveling knots and intricate cases brought to him by Polly Burton, a young reporter. Many of these were later collected in *The Old Man in the Corner* (1909). [Leslie S. Klinger, *In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes* (2011)]
3.7
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is a classic novel of romance and intrigue. The Scarlet Pimpernel is an unknown English gentleman who risks his life to help targeted French aristocrats escape the persecution of the revolutionary government in 1792 France. Lady Blakeney is a French woman who is married to an English gentleman. Lady Blakeney is approached by a French agent who needs her help in learning the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel. At first Lady Blakeney refuses, but when she learns that her brother has been discovered collaborating with the Scarlet Pimpernel, Lady Blakeney agrees to help in exchange for her brother's safe return to England.
Literature & FictionLiteraryReference
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
LENGTH156
LANGUAGEEN
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art. In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks. In 1903, she and her husband coauthored her most famous work, The Scarlet Pimpernel. She went on to write over a dozen sequels to the novel. She also created a number of memorable detectives: Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk of Scotland Yard, who heads the "Female Department" (her cases are collected in *Lady Molly of Scotland Yard*, 1910); Monsieur Fernand, a Napoleonic-era secret agent (*The Man in Grey*, 1918); and Patrick Mulligan, a shady attorney (*Skin o' My Tooth*, 1928). Her greatest detective was the Old Man in the Corner, probably the first of the "armchair" detectives. He sits in a chair in a London tea shop, unraveling knots and intricate cases brought to him by Polly Burton, a young reporter. Many of these were later collected in *The Old Man in the Corner* (1909). [Leslie S. Klinger, *In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes* (2011)]
