The Elusive Pimpernel

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 1stworld Library (Editor)

Overview

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There was not even a reaction. On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On! ever on! France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition, - Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage, - defies the Universe and defies God! Paris this September 1793! - or shall we call it Vendemiaire, Year I. of the Republic? - call it what we will! Paris! a city of bloodshed, of humanity in its lowest, most degraded aspect. France herself a gigantic self-devouring monster, her fairest cities destroyed, Lyons razed to the ground, Toulon, Marseilles, masses of blackened ruins, her bravest sons turned to lustful brutes or to abject cowards seeking safety at the cost of any humiliation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421800097
Publisher:	1st World Library
Publication date:	10/12/2005
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865-1945) was born in Hungary, the daughter of a baron. Raised in wealth among the aristocracy, she determined to achieve success as a painter and illustrator before starting a writing career. She wrote in English, although she did not speak the language until she was fifteen, and she produced many short stories and detective novels. Her greatest success came with the historical adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Johanna Ward (a.k.a. Kate Reading) is an Audie Award-winning narrator and has received numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. She is also a theater actor in the Washington, DC, area and has been a member of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 1987. Her work onstage has been recognized by the Helen Hayes Awards Society, among others. She and her husband live in Hyattsville, Maryland, with their two children.

Table of Contents

1	Paris: 1793	1
2	A Retrospect	8
3	Ex-Ambassador Chauvelin	14
4	The Richmond Gala	24
5	Sir Percy and His Lady	35
6	For the Poor of Paris	41
7	Premonition	51
8	The Invitation	56
9	Demoiselle Candeille	60
10	Lady Blakeney's Rout	68
11	The Challenge	74
12	Time - Place - Conditions	84
13	Reflections	98
14	The Ruling Passion	102
15	Farewell	111
16	The Passport	118
17	Boulogne	124
18	No. 6	134
19	The Strength of the Weak	145
20	Triumph	151
21	Suspense	157
22	Not Death	162
23	The Hostage	175
24	Colleagues	187
25	The Unexpected	196
26	The Terms of the Bargain	207
27	The Decision	218
28	The Midnight Watch	221
29	The National Fete	230
30	The Procession	238
31	Final Dispositions	245
32	The Letter	253
33	The English Spy	261
34	The Angelus	269
35	Marguerite	275