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  • The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922) is one of the later novels in Baroness Emma Orczy’s Scarlet Pimpernel series, continuing the adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney, the daring English aristocrat who secretly rescues victims from the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. ...
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    24,95 €

  • The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, the book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney's exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The stories are set in 1793 but appear in no particu...
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    18,62 €

  • The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Aziloth Books)
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    'Baroness Emma Orczy wrote 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' as a stage play in 1903, and its great success in the theatre prompted a series of books based on the adventures of its hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, whose outward appearance of hare-brained aristocratic fop masks a man of cool, sometimes reckless courage intent on rescuing as many innocents as he can from the blood-lus...
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    11,89 €

  • The Elusive Pimpernel (Aziloth Books)
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    In this, the second sequel to her best-selling 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', Baroness Orczy gives us a glimpse into the Pimpernel's past, and pits her hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, against his would-be nemesis, the brilliant but amoral diplomat and spymaster Citizen Chauvelin. Outwitted on numerous occasions by the Scarlet Pimpernel, a humiliated and demoted Chauvelin hatche...
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    12,64 €

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (Aziloth Books)
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    It is 1792, the French Revolution is at its height, and 'Madame Guillotine' is plying her murderous trade - the sons of the Revolution intent on exterminating the hated 'Aristos', sparing neither man woman nor child. But increasingly, the condemned are disappearing, whisked away to safety by an unknown Englishman, who leaves behind a simple note, bearing the ima...
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    12,43 €

  • Unravelled Knots (Paperback)
    Baroness Emma Orczy / Emmuska Baroness Orczy
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    15,86 €

  • Skin ’o My Tooth (Paperback)
    Baroness Emma Orczy / Emmuska Baroness Orczy
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    13,46 €

  • Castles in the Air
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotu...
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    13,31 €

  • A Bride of The Plains
    Baroness Emma Orczy
      A Bride of the Plains is a historical novel written in 1915 by Baroness Orczy, the author of the famous The Scarlet Pimpernel series. It is dedicated to the memory of Lajos Kossuth, and in the dedication the author cries out to the dead Hungarian patriot and asks him: 'What would YOU have said now had vou lived to see your country tied to Austria's chariot-wheels, the cat...
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    14,04 €

  • El Dorado
    Baroness Emma Orczy
      Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.  As well as containing all the main characters from the first book, Eldorado introduces several new characters and features the Baron de Batz, who also turns u...
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    17,69 €

  • The Old Man in the Corner
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves crimes while sitting in the corner of a genteel London tea-room in conversation with a female journalist. He was one of the first of this character-type created in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Th...
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    13,35 €

  • The Elusive Pimpernel
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Elusive Pimpernel By Baroness Orczy First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title Nouveaux Exploits du Mouron Rouge. It was adapted into a silent film The ...
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    15,50 €

  • I Will Repay
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orzcy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orzcy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.The story starts before the French revolution. It's 1783 and wealthy...
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    13,24 €

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    Baroness Emma Orczy
    The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903. The novel is set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.The title is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonis...
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    13,22 €