Baroness Emma Orczy eBooks
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El Dorado. E-book. Formato EPUB Baroness Emma Orczy - E-Bookarama, 2025 -
If you've read and loved the exciting classic "The Scarlet Pimpernel" then you'd probably be delighted to follow the further adventures of the dashing Sir Percy Blakeney. "El Dorado" by Baronness Emma Orczy depicts the intrepid swordsman and escape artist in the role of savior of the French royal family.Published in 1913, "El Dorado" was the fourth in the Pimpernel series of eleven books, numerous short stories and other related writings about her famous British adventurer. However, Orczy did not always follow a strict chronological sequence while publishing the novels and hence, there is plenty of overlap between the time frames of the stories. "El Dorado" is famous for its being the basis on which most of the film and stage adaptations of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" have been based.
The Scarlet Pimpernel. E-book. Formato EPUB Baroness Emma Orczy - E-Bookarama, 2024 -
First published in 1905, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The novel is the first in a series of tales that follows the fictional main character infamously known as the Scarlet Pimpernel.The story is set at the time of the French Revolution, which occurred in the latter part of the eighteenth century. This revolt involved the overthrow of the French monarchy. A notorious Englishman sympathetic to the crisis in the aristocratic ranks helped sneak French royals out of the country to safety across the English Channel. This Englishman was known by the name of the Scarlet Pimpernel because upon making a clean escape from the French patrols, he would leave a note describing the caper, and it would be signed with a red, star-shaped flower the English called a scarlet pimpernel.
A Bride of the Plains. E-book. Formato EPUB Baroness Emma Orczy - E-Bookarama, 2024 -
Baroness Emma Orczy´s masterpiece "A Bride of the Plains" is a historical novel written in 1915. The story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros.On this particular 14th of September it is Andor's turn to go unwillingly into the army for three years. On the eve preceding it, at the village merrymaking, as the whole population spends its last happy hours trying to forget the hideous events that will occur in the morning, he tokens himself to Elsa the village beauty.When Andor returns from Bosnia, his village has changed, but so has he.