Scarlet pimpernel, Orczy Baroness

Автор: Hannah Rothschild
Название: The Baroness
ISBN: 1844086054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844086054
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Part musical odyssey, part dazzling love story The Baroness traces Nica`s extraordinary, thrilling journey - from England`s stately homes to the battlefields of Africa, passing under the shadow of the Holocaust, and finally, to the creative ferment of New York`s 1950s jazz scene.

Автор: Baroness Orczy
Название: The Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 0241341337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241341339
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades, he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel.

But will his beautiful French wife Marguerite unwittingly prove his downfall? Baroness Orczy's swashbuckling 1905 novel set the standard for all future tales of masked avengers and was later adapted into a famous stage play and several film versions. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Автор: Orczy, Baroness
Название: The Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 185715505X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857155051
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The exotically named Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a Hungarian aristocrat who came to London at the age of fifteen. Everyman`s Library Children`s Classics publishes the novel in a new and up-to-date edition to tie in with the BBC production to be screened this Christmas.