The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Overview

Book Excerpt: he gave a shiver as if he felt cold. "Since thou dost commune with the spirits, find out from them how I can accomplish that."The woman once more raised the crystal globe to the level of her breast. With her elbows stretched out and her draperies falling straight all around her, she gazed into it for a while in silence. Then she began to murmur."I see the Scarlet Flower quite plainly... a small Scarlet Flower.... And I see the great Light which is like an aureole, the Light of the Chosen One. It is of dazzling brightness - but over the Scarlet Flower casts a Stygian shadow.""Ask them," Robespierre broke in peremptorily, "ask thy spirits how best I can overcome mine enemy.""I see something," the witch went on in an even monotone, still gazing into the crystal globe "white and rose and tender... is it a woman...?""A woman?""She is tall, and she is beautiful... a stranger in the land... with eyes dark as the night and tresses black as the raven's wing.... Yes, itRead More

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788829581559
Publisher:	Classica Libris
Publication date:	12/22/2018
Series:	Scarlet Pimpernel , #9
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
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.