The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Overview

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel is chronologically the last novel in the classic series. The action takes place in Paris during the 2nd year of the French Revolution and centers around a beautiful young Spanish woman who is married to a man loyal to Robespierre’s cause and is used in an attempt to lure Sir Percy into a trap. This edition includes a table of contents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781537804668
Publisher:	Kypros Press
Publication date:	11/02/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

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.