Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel PDF full book. Access full book title The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Orczy. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3387097697 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3387097697 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Emmuska Orczy Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
This is a historical novel set in Paris. A novel in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures. It is Paris, 1794, Robespierre at this time is at the height of his popularity and his power. His revolution is inflicting its reign of terror on nobles, aristocrats, royalists, and traitors. The elusive Scarlet Pimpernel is still being hunted. Robespierre becomes paranoid about the Pimpernel and must have him destroyed.
Author: Baroness Orczy Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof ISBN: 8728138791 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
Who is the Scarlett Pimpernel? Will his identity finally be revealed? Will the elusive hero succeed in liberating Marguerite and escaping his pursuers yet again? Find out in 'The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel' by Baroness Orczy. In 1794, the reign of terror is still raging in Paris, while people are imprisoned and executed indiscriminately in the name of the revolution. The Scarlett Pimpernel, much to the chagrin of his enemies, is still at large, but Agent Chauvelin refuses to give up. He captures the Pimpernel's beloved Marguerite in the hope of luring out his enemy. The Scarlett Pimpernel has been adapted for movies and TV over the years with the most well known being from 1982 starring Jane Seymour and Ian McKellen. Baroness Orczy was a British author, born in Hungary, who lived in the period 1865 – 1947. Her literary legacy consists of a series of novels and playwrights. She gained wide popularity in 1905 with the publication of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", a play which she wrote together with her husband. The interest that followed after the first publication led to several sequels. Baroness Orczy was also an important figure during World War I as she established an organization that was women-orientated and aimed to encourage them to seek active service in the armed forces.
Author: Emmauska Orczy Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1609777697 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. This is one of her novels.
Author: Baroness Orczy Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781719530712 Category : Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is a book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy. Again Orczy interweaves historic fact with fiction, this time through the real life figures of Thérésa Cabarrus, and Jean-Lambert Tallien; inserting the Scarlet Pimpernel as an instigator of the role Tallien played in the Thermidorian Reaction in July. Plot summary The story starts in Paris in April 1794, year II of the French Revolution. Theresia Cabarrus is a beautiful but shallow Spaniard who is betrothed to Citizen Tallien the popular Representative in the Convention and one of Robespierre's inner circle. She is credited with exercising a mellowing influence over Tallien, whom she met in Bordeaux but although she is engaged to be married to him, what little love she has appears to be lavished on another. Bertrand Moncrif is a good-looking but impulsive young man who appears determined to martyr himself in opposition to the revolutionary government. To this end, he has gathered the siblings of his long-term sweetheart, Régine de Serval, into his plan to denounce Robespierre at one of the Fraternal suppers. Despite warnings from Régine he insists on carrying through his plans which inevitably go awry and the wrath of the mob is soon turned towards the small group. After a timely intervention on the part of the Scarlet Pimpernel, using the guise of the coal heaver Rateau (who also appears in several short stories in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - The Cabaret de la Liberté, Needs Must and A Battle of Wits), the de Servals are saved from a lynching while Moncrif lies unconscious and unseen under a table. In England, Moncrif and the de Servals are finally free to resume an almost normal life. Theresia arrives at Dover dressed in men's clothes and claiming she has been driven out of France by her association with Bertrand, in fear of her life. An obviously staged row between the Spaniard and Chauvelin outside Sir Percy's cottage fails to persuade our hero that she is up to anything but mischief, but he seems to relish the prospect of such an intelligent and wily adversary and promises not to reveal her true identity to anyone for he "is a lover of sport." With her plans to seduce Percy scuppered, Theresia turns her attention to Sir Percy's wife Marguerite and uses an all too willing Bertrand to set the trap. Lady Blakeney is kidnapped yet again and taken to France and imprisoned as bait for Sir Percy................ Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci ( 23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture. Opening in London's West End on 5 January 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel became a favourite of British audiences. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. During World War I, Orczy formed the Women of England's Active Service League, an unofficial organisation aimed at encouraging women to persuade men to volunteer for active service in the armed forces............
Author: Emmuska Orczy de Orczi Publisher: ISBN: 9781497418776 Category : Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
Pepita had just admitted into her mistress's apartments a singular group, composed of two able-bodied men supporting a palsied one. One of the former was St. Just, one of the most romantic figures of the Revolutionary period, the confidant and intimate friend of Robespierre and own cousin to Armand St. Just and to the beautiful Marguerite, who had married the fastidious English milord, Sir Percy Blakeney. The other was Chauvelin, at one time one of the most influential members of the Committee of Public Safety, now little more than a hanger-on of Robespierre's party. A man of no account, to whom not even Tallien and his colleagues thought it worth while to pay their court. The palsied man was Couthon, despite his crimes an almost pathetic figure in his helplessness, after his friends had deposited him in an armchair and wrapped a rug around his knees. The carrying chair in which he spent the greater part of his life had been left down below in the concierge's lodge, and St. Just and Chauvelin had carried him up the three flights of stairs to citoyenne Cabarrus's apartment.Close behind these three men came Robespierre.Heavens! if a thunderbolt had fallen from the skies on that night of the 26th of April, 1794, and destroyed house No. 22 in the Rue Villedot, with all those who were in it, what a torrent of blood would have been stemmed, what horrors averted, what misery forefended!But nothing untoward happened. The four men who sat that night and well into the small hours of the morning in the dingy apartment, occupied for the present by the beautiful Cabarrus, were allowed by inscrutable Providence to discuss their nefarious designs unchecked.In truth, there was no discussion. One man dominated the small assembly, even though he sat for the most part silent and apparently self-absorbed, wrapped in that taciturnity and even occasional somnolence which seemed to have become a pose with him of late. He sat on a high chair, prim and upright. Immaculately dressed in blue cloth coat and white breeches, with clean linene at throat and wrist, his hair neatly tied back with a black silk bow, his nails polished, his shoes free from mud, he presented a marked contrast to the ill-conditioned appearance of those other products of revolutionary ideals.St. Just, on the other hand--young, handsome, a brilliant talker and convinced enthusiast--was only too willing to air his compelling eloquence, was in effect the mouthpiece of the great man as he was his confidant and his right hand. He had acquired in the camps which he so frequently visited a breezy, dictatorial manner that pleased his friends and irritated Tallien and his clique, more especially when sententious phrases fell from his lips which were obviously the echo of some of Robespierre's former speeches in the Convention.Then there was Couthon, sarcastic and contemptuous, delighting to tease Tallien and to affect a truculent manner, which brought abject flattery from the other's lips.St. just the fiery young demagogue, and Couthon the half-paralysed enthusiast, were known to be pushing their leader toward the proclamation of a triumvirate, with Robespierre as chief dictator and themselves as his two hands; and it amused the helpless cripple to see just how far the obsequiousness to Tallien and his colleagues would go in subscribing to so monstrous a project.As for Chauvelin, he said very little, and the deference wherewith he listened to the others, the occasional unctuous words which he let fall, bore testimony to the humiliating subservience to which he had sunk.And the beautiful Theresia, presiding over the small assembly like a goddess who listens to the prattle of men, sat for the most part quite still, on the one dainty piece of furniture of which her dingy apartment boasted. She was careful to sit so that the rosy glow of the lamp fell on her in the direction most becoming to her attitude.
Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3387097689 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Baronne Emmuska Orczy Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
"The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel" is a historical novel written by the Hungarian-British author Baroness Emma Orczy. It was first published in 1922 and is part of the popular series of novels featuring the character Sir Percy Blakeney, also known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. In this novel, which is a sequel to "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Sir Percy Blakeney continues his daring adventures as he rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The story is known for its swashbuckling action, daring rescues, and the clever disguises and strategies employed by the Scarlet Pimpernel and his league. The Scarlet Pimpernel series, created by Baroness Orczy, has been praised for its romantic and adventurous storytelling. These novels are set during the tumultuous period of the French Revolution and have captivated readers for their tales of heroism, intrigue, and disguise. "The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel" is a significant installment in this series, known for its exciting narrative and memorable characters.
Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Author: Emmuska Orczy
Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Bar
Author: Baroness Orczy
Author: Emmauska Orczy
Author: Baroness Orczy
Author: Emmuska Orczy de Orczi
Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Author: Baronne Emmuska Orczy