4.3
I Will Repay
I Will Repay, a sequel to Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel, is a delightful romp through fields of adventure, danger, betrayal, daring rescue, and true love. Will our heroes and heroines find justice? Or will they end up with an appointment to see Madam Guillotine? Baroness Orczy's skillful storytelling weaves threads of misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and erroneous conclusion with those of attraction, trust, adoration, and longing, to produce a tapestry replete with the darkness of betrayal and the brightness of redemption. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
FictionClassicsHistoricalRomanceSuspense
RELEASED2008
PUBLISHEREditorium
LENGTH228
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)]
4.3
I Will Repay
by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
I Will Repay, a sequel to Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel, is a delightful romp through fields of adventure, danger, betrayal, daring rescue, and true love. Will our heroes and heroines find justice? Or will they end up with an appointment to see Madam Guillotine? Baroness Orczy's skillful storytelling weaves threads of misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and erroneous conclusion with those of attraction, trust, adoration, and longing, to produce a tapestry replete with the darkness of betrayal and the brightness of redemption. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
FictionClassicsHistoricalRomanceSuspense
RELEASED2008
PUBLISHEREditorium
LENGTH228
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)]
