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The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Can she save them both? This is an unabridged version of the historical swashbuckling adventure by Hungarian-born British author Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and was first published in 1905.
Castles in the Air

Castles in the Air

Emmuska Orczy

Emmuska Orczy, Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness 1st World Library. I had, of course, provided myself with one. A shawl is always a necessary adjunct to such adventures. Breathlessly, silently, I intimated to my kind accomplice that I would ...
Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the ...

Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the ...

Emmuska Orczy

This volume includes her two books, The Old Man in the Corner and The Case of Miss Elliott, both of which relate the logical theorizing of the anonymous Old Man as he discusses (and solves) mysterious crimes with a "lady journalist.
By The Gods Beloved

By The Gods Beloved

Baroness Orczy

Mark and Hugh are school friends.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

More adventures amongst the terrors of revolutionary France.
I Will Repay

I Will Repay

Baroness Orczy

It is Paris, 1793, 'the most seething time of that seething revolution.
Lord Tony's Wife

Lord Tony's Wife

Baroness Orczy

Lord Antony Dewhurst is ‘a splendid fellow – a fine sportsman, a loyal gentleman’.
Unto Caesar

Unto Caesar

Baroness Orczy

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Eldorado

Eldorado

Baroness Orczy

Armand St Just, his beautiful sister Marguerite and her husband Sir Percy Blakeney are once again caught up in the turmoil of revolutionary France. And adventurer Baron de Batz enters the story.
The First Sir Percy

The First Sir Percy

Baroness Orczy

The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney.
The Adventures Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Adventures Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

This collection of short stories about the exploits of the Pimpernel is wonderfully entertaining, and transports the reader back to the French Revolution where clever disguises and narrow escapes abound!
The Elusive Pimpernel

The Elusive Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

In the author's rarely reprinted sequel, The Elusive Pimpernel, this star-crossed duo return to once again risk the shadow of the guillotine as they do battle with their greatest nemesis, Chauvelin.
El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

A popular sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, this suspenseful story recounts the Pimpernel's attempts to rescue the Dauphin from imprisonment during the French Revolution.
Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard

Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard

Baroness Orczy

Lady Molly’s fiancée is framed for murder and sent to prison. This is the trigger that turns her into one of the best detectives at Scotland Yard.
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Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity--A ...

Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity--A ...

Irene Gammel

The first biography of the enigmatic dadaist known as "the Baroness"—Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
Beyond Barn Finds...The Baroness and The Mercedes: and 49 ...

Beyond Barn Finds...The Baroness and The Mercedes: and 49 ...

Wallace A. Wyss

Here are a few examples: a pre-war Mercedes 540K that was simply abandoned by a German baroness at a Connecticut resort and later sold for over $11 million, the rubber-bodied Cobra that Ford built to assuage the ego of their top design exec ...
The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild

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 the New York jazz scene.
The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild

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 the New York jazz scene.
Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless

Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless

Andrew Boyd

In this compelling biography, Andrew Boyd tells the story of Baroness Cox's humble beginnings as a nurse and her subsequent nine-year fight as a sociology lecturer and Labour supporter against intimidation by the hard left.
I Will Repay

I Will Repay

Emmuska Orczy

Coward! Coward!
The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

'Anyone who feels that their outward manner is but a travesty of their inner self can hardly fail to respond to The Scarlet Pimpernel' Independent
Lord Tony's Wife

Lord Tony's Wife

Emmuska Orczy

A peasant revolutionist who is trying to lure the heroine and her father back to France, and an unwelcome suitor, engage the cunning of the Scarlet Pimpernel in restoring the kidnapped bride to her husband through hairbreadth escapes and ...
The Old Man in the Corner

The Old Man in the Corner

Emmuska Orczy

The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table.
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

Emmuska Orczy

Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy folded his hands before him ere he spoke: "Nay! but I tell thee, woman, that the Lord hath no love for such frivolities! and alack! but 'tis a sign of the times that an English Squire should favor such evil ways.
Fox Family: Baron Holland, Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness ...

Fox Family: Baron Holland, Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness ...

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Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von ...

Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von ...

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

This is a collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, 'the first American Dada'.

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