I Will Repay - Softcover

Orczy, Emma, Baroness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605121533 ISBN 13: 9781605121536

Publisher: Akasha Classics, 2008

Synopsis

What if the man you love is the same man who killed your brother – whose death you have sworn to avenge? Juliette de Marny has finally managed to acquire an invitation to the house of Paul Déroulede. She now has the chance to destroy the man who ten years ago killed her brother in a duel. But once inside Déroulede’s home, Juliette learns that all may not be what she thought it was. Will she discover the truth in time to save an innocent man? Set in the same post-Revolutionary France as The Scarlet Pimpernel and featuring many of the same characters, this is a gripping story full of romance, danger and intrigue.

About this title

About the Author:

Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy. She married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background was the French Revolution and its swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and film and TV versions were later made. Orczy also wrote detective stories which still prove popular and are equally acclaimed within this genre. She died in 1947.

From AudioFile:

Published in 1906, this tale of high romance and intrigue, set during the bloodiest days of the French Revolution, is the first of several sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel. It has aged well. Johanna Ward is fun to listen to. She puts the author's rather melodramatic prose in the best possible light by reading with restraint, gravity and authority. She also renders fluently the frequent names and phrases in French. Although character voices are not highly differentiated, it's always clear who's speaking and how he or she feels. Good production values top off the welcome reappearance of an old friend. J.N. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Akasha Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605121533
• ISBN 13: 9781605121536
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256