The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (New Portway Reprints) - Hardcover

Emmuska Orczy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0862206235 ISBN 13: 9780862206239

Publisher: Chivers P, 1991

Synopsis

Xmi JkBTIHO BTAB fl I.OOK DOWN, UXX OLDTXITIHO KTKS BSIOBT WITH UIKOBTAI. PITT, OTXB THE LOTO f81 NEABLY five yean have gone by IF ive yean, siace the charred ruins of grim Bastille tone image of A baolntism and of Autocracy set the aeal of victoiy upon the expreasion of a peoples will and maed the binning of that mairelloua era of Liberty nd of Fraternity which has led ns step by step from the dflthroaement of a King, tbrongb the martyrdom of coontleaa innocents, to the tyranny of an oligarchy more arbitrary, Bore relentless, above all more cmel, than any that the dietatora of Rome or Stambonl ever dreamed of in their wilet thirst for power. An era that sees a populace always damonring for the Uillenninm, which ranting demagogues bare nerer ceased to promise: a Millennium to be acbiered ahemati Tely through the extermination of A ristocracy, of Titles, of Riches, and the abrogation of Priesthood: through dethroned royalty and desecrated altars, through an army without leadership, or an Assembly without power.
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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. Shemoved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then Paris, where she was educated. Orczy alsostudied art in London and exhibited work atthe Royal Academy. Later sheMontagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Fame came in1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was originally a play co-written with her husband. Its background of Revolution in France and swashbuckling hero, 'Sir Percy Blakeney', was to prove immensely popular. Sequels followed and many years later film and TV versions are enduringly popular, with new productions from time to time. However, Orczy alsoalso wrote detective stories which have a following today amongst those intersted in the genre. She died in 1947.

From AudioFile:

With the stage debut of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903), the Baroness Orczy invented the "masked avenger" genre of fiction--the swashbuckling hero of dual identity. Her progeny include Zorro, Superman, The Lone Ranger and many others. The Baroness's Pimpernel is a British fop who, in a play and series of popular novels, daringly spirited condemned innocents out of France during the Reign of Terror. Hugh Laurie, best known Stateside as the foppish Bertie Wooster in TV's "Wooster and Jeeves," plunges into these two adventures with childlike relish. Yes, he is corny; yes, he overdoes it; but irresistibly. That's what this fare is made for. As he reads, one pictures, not the dashing Leslie Howard, cinema's Pimpernel, but a little boy performing for the family behind his homemade puppet theater. Sorry, Baroness, I know this isn't what you had in mind, but it's far better. Y.R. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers P
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0862206235
• ISBN 13: 9780862206239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192