The Life And Exploits Of The Scarlet Pimpernel - Softcover

Blakeney, John; Barstow, John Montagu Orczy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1258486474 ISBN 13: 9781258486471

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Originally Printed As A Gay Adventurer, And Later Retitled The Life And Exploits Of The Scarlet Pimpernel, This Work Is A Fictional Biography Of The Famous Character Written Under The Pseudonym John Blakeney And Includes A Forward By The Baroness Emma Orczy.

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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. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1258486474
• ISBN 13: 9781258486471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308